IP and Legal Filings

JULY 29, 2024

Moreover, these kinds of works, in most cases, have inadequate rights protection based on the existing laws of copyright. Most countries and regions do not have open-ended excuses through which instructors can rely on copyrighted items for teaching without violating the law.

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IP Watchdog

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit holding that Andy Warhol’s Prince Series did not constitute fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph. The Second Circuit held in March that “the district court erred in its assessment and application of the fair-use factors and the works in question do not qualify as fair use.”

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IP and Legal Filings

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The availability of a large variety of information has also increased the risk of Copyright Infringement due to its easy accessibility and dissemination. This has led to varying degrees of copyright infringements in this digital era. Case Laws The first case in this regard is UTV Software Communication Limited v. and Ors.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. What the Second Circuit’s “Fair Use” Analysis tells us ?

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In the latest salvo, the New York Times Company sued Microsoft and OpenAI – the creator of ChatGPT – for infringement under the federal Copyright Act. Fair use is a defense to a claim of copyright infringement that must be affirmatively invoked by the accused infringer.

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Copyright Alliance

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

As seen in parts 1 and part 2 of our blog series, where there is art, there are artists who love to push boundaries, particularly in copyright law. This is […] The post Copyright Cases Visual Artists Should Know: Part 3, Fair Use appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A Federal appeals court has ruled that the nonprofit Internet Archive’s “controlled digital lending program” – which creates and lends fully digitized copies of books – does not meet the copyright law’s definition of a fair use. The September 4, 2024, decision in Hachette Books v.

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SpicyIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

She graduated from National Law University, Delhi in 2023 & enjoys reading and writing on copyright laws. Text and Data Mining under §44b of the German Copyright Act (“the Act”) §44b acknowledges TDM as a limitation on an author’s copyright, thereby constituting use permitted by law. LAION logo.

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TorrentFreak

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Cries of ‘Fair Use’ In thousands of social media posts, comments and numerous articles posted since Mark’s announcement, a common theme persists. As it happens, however, another ‘law’ is more immediately pertinent in this case – that of YouTube’s Content ID.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. She emphasized that both uses were commercial in nature, making them substantially similar in purpose.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Internet Archive, holding that the Internet Archive's "controlled digital lending" program violated copyright law. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a resounding victory to the publishing industry on Wednesday, September 4, 2024, in Hachette Books v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Promoting research and access to its products has always been a core purpose of copyright law, often expressed in limitations and exceptions for research uses. Empirical scholarship has highlighted the positive impact on scholarship of copyright exceptions for TDM and of more “open” exceptions for research uses.

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Indiana Intellectual Property Law

JUNE 1, 2023

Supreme Court has ruled that Andy Warhol’s orange silkscreen portrait of musician Prince, adapted from a photograph by Lynn Goldsmith, does not qualify as “fair use” under copyright law. The commercial nature of the copying further weighed against fair use. Continue reading

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The IPKat

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This is a review of Music Borrowing and Copyright Law, a Genre-by-Genre Analysis , edited by Enrico Bonadio (City, University of London) and Chen Wei Zhu (University of Birmingham). There are over 30 contributors to the volume, including academics, musicologists, and lawyers. The book is divided into two main parts.

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IP and Legal Filings

JUNE 12, 2023

Since copying was for the purpose of criticism, it amounted to fair dealing and did not constitute infringement of the copyright. Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp The post Parody under the Copyright Law first appeared on IPLF. References Civic Chandran v/s C. Ammini Amma (1996) 16 PTC 329 (Ker.)

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JD Supra Law

JANUARY 30, 2023

HOW ANDY WARHOL IS STILL SHAPING AMERICAN COPYRIGHT LAW In October 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments regarding whether pop artist Andy Warhol’s artwork made fair use of a photo of a music legend, Prince, in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. Lynn Goldsmith. By: McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The only claim that wasn’t contested by OpenAI is direct copyright infringement, which the company plans to address at a later stage. Among its arguments to dismiss the claims, the AI company cited fair use. “Fair use, of course, is an important—yet limited—feature of U.S. copyright law. .

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IP Law 360

MAY 12, 2022

A sketch comedy group on Thursday successfully convinced a New York federal judge that its play "Vape: The Musical" is a parody of the film version of the musical "Grease" and is therefore protected under copyright law's fair use doctrine.

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IP Law 360

JUNE 7, 2024

Circuit on Friday reversed a lower court's decision that had rejected two industry groups' challenge to a final rule that categorized medical device diagnostic procedures and repairs as fair use exemptions to U.S. copyright law.

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Likelihood of Confusion

APRIL 30, 2023

Eugene Volokh joins the pile–on regarding a website that claims to exempt its contents from the liberating effects of the fair use doctrine. The post Unilateral copyright law appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™. The North Country Gazette, a publication whose.

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The Illusion of More

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Fair Use Week. I still don’t know why this doctrine in copyright law should be observed on the calendar, let alone for a whole week carved out of Black History Month. But in 2013, some anti-copyright ideologues thought it should be a thing, so now it’s a thing. […]. Well, here we are again. Ninth annual.

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JD Supra Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The legal implications of artificial intelligence (AI), specifically generative AI, quickly became a topic of casual conversation following the launch of ChatGPT in November of 2022. Generative AI is a type of AI with the ability to create many forms of unique content (e.g.,

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TorrentFreak

JUNE 22, 2022

Soon after and in mysterious circumstances, copyright law entered the equation. On October 29, 2020, a business entity called Bayside Advisory LLC contacted Twitter stating that since it owns the copyrights in the six photos, they should be taken down under the DMCA. DMCA Takedowns Followed by DMCA Subpoena.

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BYU Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Internet Archive's Fair Use Defense Falls Short Fair Use,Literary Works,Infringement Found October 07, 11:03 AM October 07, 11:03 AM On May 15, 2024, we published a post about an important legal dispute between the Internet Archive (IA) and the publisher Hachette, along with other major publishers (the Publishers").

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IP Law 360

MARCH 22, 2023

A Tenth Circuit panel had tough questions on Wednesday for Netflix over whether copyright law's fair use protections cover the streaming giant's hit show "Tiger King" and its use of YouTube video footage that showed the funeral of Travis Maldonado, the husband of the show's star, Joe Exotic.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 16, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Listen to this podcast episode here.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case). W/o fair use, these tools are far more limited.

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The Illusion of More

JUNE 8, 2023

Goldsmith, she stated the following: If Warhol had used Goldsmith’s photo to comment on or critique Goldsmith’s photo, he might have availed himself of that factor’s benefit (though why anyone would be interested in that work is mysterious).

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JD Supra Law

JUNE 16, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. By: Weintraub Tobin

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LexBlog IP

MAY 24, 2023

Warhol’s use of Prince’s photo (taken by Lynn Goldsmith) was not entitled to fair use. The Court found that Goldsmith’s earlier photo and Andy Warhol’s use served the same commercial purpose – as a magazine illustration. I am not so sure. Take a look a the illustration above.

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Likelihood of Confusion

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

First, this vintage LOC item: Fred von Lohmann of the EFF calls out YouTube: Fair use has always been at risk on YouTube, thanks to abusive DMCA takedown notices sent. The post The “Fair Use Massacre” (updated) appeared first on LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™.

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IPilogue

MAY 26, 2022

Raenelle Manning is an IPilogue Writer and a 2L JD Candidate at Osgoode Hall Law School. Moten, a Texas pastor, filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against rapper Kanye West for incorporating a sample recording of his religious sermon into one of his songs. The fair use defence is rarely used in music sampling cases.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the US Supreme Court, in a much-anticipated decision, held that portraits of the musician Prince by Andy Warhol do not constitute fair use under copyright law. The 7 – 2 decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts, Inc.

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Patently-O

APRIL 3, 2022

Litigation ensued, and the basic question in the case is whether Warhol’s unlicensed uses constitute “fair use” under Section 107 of the Copyright Act. Here, in particular, Warhol argues that his use is so “transformative” of the original photographs that no license is needed.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 19, 2022

After reviewing McFree’s videos, last month a New York judge denied the Watch Tower application declaring that McFree’s use of Watch Tower clips was permitted under fair use. However, Watch Tower is still pursuing a parallel copyright infringement lawsuit against McFree in another court. Until now, that is.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 16, 2023

Goldsmith that Andy Warhol’s portrait of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. Scott Hervey and Tara Sattler talk about this decision on this episode of The Briefing by the IP Law Blog. Supreme Court ruled in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Listen to this podcast episode here.

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