Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Vila licensed his photo to various online and print publications for use in articles about Shayk. Deadly Doll’s theory was that by taking a photo of Shayk wearing clothes that included its artwork, Vila had created an unlawful derivative work that reproduced its copyrighted image.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. I speculated that this was an attempt to avoid a messy fair use dispute. One core concept in AI-relevant cases that both find for, and against, fair use ( Google Books and Fox v. is being used as code.

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 13, 2024

Commercial Educational Materials May 13, 09:24 AM May 13, 09:23 AM A while ago, in January 2022, we published a post with updates on Chegg Inc.s Chegg presented several defenses, including fair use, copyright misuse, express license, and equitable estoppel. Will the Court Find the Answers?

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

2K Games rejected similar infringement claims on the basis of de minimis use, implied license, and fair use. To briefly summarize, the court left the fair use question entirely to the jury, despite its own pre-trial order and the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Google v.

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Velocity of Content

JUNE 8, 2022

Preface: I wanted to learn more about the concept (and applications) of “derivative works” and adaptations under copyright law, and I was searching for a useful example that might also be interesting for readers of Velocity of Content to read about. The novel, however, was published before text of the play. Confused yet?

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. By Guest Blogger Tyler Ochoa By a 7-2 vote, the U.S. Goldsmith , No. 569 (1994).

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. A Musical Parody ” and “ Friends!

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 7, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. ” (S.

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Patently-O

OCTOBER 11, 2022

On October 12, 2022, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the fair use copyright case of Andy Warhol Foundation, Inc. Andy Warhol admittedly used Lynn Goldmith’s copyrighted photographs of Prince as the basis for his set of sixteen silkscreens. The published article acknowledges Goldsmith. by Dennis Crouch.

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IP Intelligence

JUNE 6, 2023

Sy Damle, (2016-2018 General Counsel) testified that “the training of AI models will generally fall within the established bounds of fair use.” (S. At the time Goldsmith was also licensing her original photograph to several magazines that were also writing articles about Prince’s life and music. Damle introductory statement, Tr.

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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Mods are beneficial for the video game industry, [3] but mods can threaten a company’s copyright exclusivity because of their status as derivative works. [4] Second, this blog will provide an explanation for why threats of litigation are damaging to mod communities as well as to the video game publishing companies that employ them.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

From the output side, the relevant issues are whether the output is copyright-protected, and whether it infringes the copyright of ‘works “ingested” during the training stage of the AI system’ ( see Quintais, here ; see also here and here ). To facilitate the process of TDM, data is the key.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

MPAA is there; “Coalition of Creators and Copyright Owners,” represented by songwriter (ASCAP, music, dramatists, BMI, SESAC, VLA, Writers Guild); National Music Publishers. Q: why not assume that Disney, like the music publishers, would send individual creators to front for them? Works almost like a fair use defense.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

On one hand, those who view intellectual property rights as a limited monopoly would suggest that even derivative use of the content in a meme is infringement on the rights holder’s interest. This is demonstrated by corporations repeatedly using memes and meme culture, albeit to varying degrees of success.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Warhol and his Foundation’s claim of fair use lost. The case began after Prince died in 2016, when Vanity Fair magazine’s parent company, Condé Nast, published a special commemorative magazine celebrating his life. ” The license provided that the use would be for “one time” only. .”

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Plaintiffs want and expect Google to copy and display their websites in Chrome browser and Search App, and acknowledge that Google has license to do so.” We need to know more about this license. It seems like this license could be dispositive to the case, but the court doesn’t explore it more. ” Wait, what?

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 11, 2024

“Despite efforts by LLM providers to avoid reproducing lengthy excerpts from single works, strings of words from ingested works persist in LLMs. Re-published with permission. How Content Use in LLMs Relate to Copyright How does this relate to the lawsuits? Supporters of fair use point to a U.S.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

It is certainly within the definition of chutzpah to publicly display your own work on the Internet, visible for anyone to see for free and without further conditions, and then to complain that others are helping people find your work by linking to it. Surely paid licensing should not have to work on an all-or-nothing basis.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 1984, Condé Nast, the publisher, obtained a license from Goldsmith to allow Andy Warhol to use her Prince portrait as the foundation for a single serigraphy to be featured in Vanity Fair magazine. 3] Regardless of the creative level of a work, copyright comes with limitations.

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43(B)log

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Professor Reese’s Transformativeness and the Derivative Work Right , 31 Colum. pointed out that many of the big data/evidentiary use-type fair use cases are well-described by the idea of a transformative purpose —a purpose orthogonal or unrelated to the expressive content of the original work or works used.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Over the past quarter-century, transformative use has become shorthand for fair use itself. When I first heard that the Supreme Court had agreed to take up the fair use fight over Andy Warhol’s “Prince Series,” my first reaction was “Oh wow.”. Fair use is supposed to be about balance and flexibility.

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Patently-O

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Copyright Office published a Notice of inquiry (“NOI”) and request for comments, Artificial Intelligence and Copyright, Docket No. Moreover, as we detail below, the best understanding of the application of fair use principles to AI training would hold that the practice is in most if not all instances a fair use.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 17, 2023

Also, ignoring copyright licenses is at least arguably copyright infringement, and your fair use claim probably won’t get you out of the lawsuit at the motion to dismiss stage. documents, or other files”, a definition that necessarily comprises source code, and hence the Licensed Materials. (As Complaint at 2.

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The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

Real estate brokers generally retain VHT to photograph properties they are attempting to sell and then edit the photos, save them in their electronic database, and deliver them to the client pursuant to a license agreement. First, it primarily used them in connection with the display of properties listed for sale on Zillow’s site.

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

15, 2023) This is a copyright suit against Gannett for advertising-like use of a photo taken by Campbell of NFL coach Katie Sowers; the photo came from a screenshot of an ad run by Microsoft that played during the Super Bowl. The Microsoft ad was licensed by Campbell and showed the photo at about the 40-second mark.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Restrict derivative right to adaptations/forms of representations that change medium, not works in same primary market. Hughes: if publisher can’t get sequel rights, then it will insist on getting the film rights and impoverish authors. Is publicly cancelling a work abandonment? Would it allow fair use?

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 15, 2023

Real estate brokers generally retain VHT to photograph properties they are attempting to sell and then edit the photos, save them in their electronic database, and deliver them to the client pursuant to a license agreement. First, it primarily used them in connection with the display of properties listed for sale on Zillow’s site.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peter Karol, What’s the Use: The Structural Flaw Undermining Warhol v. Goldsmith SCOTUS understood the “use” to be the foundation’s commercial licensing. But licensing is neither a © use nor an act of infringement. Incoherent to raise/evaluate fair use as to an act that wasn’t a use or infringement.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Concerned about the effect the book would have on Twain’s reputation, publisher Harper & Brothers and his daughter Clara Clemens filed a lawsuit to stop further publication of “Jap Herron.” In 1999, Cinema Secrets licensed the right to sell a Michael Myers Halloween mask from the film’s copyright owner.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

On August 6, Roc-A-Fella filed an amended complaint, naming GoDigital, a company to which Dash allegedly granted the right to license Reasonable Doubt to certain websites, as a co-defendant. [13] According to Miramax, the creation of the NFTs constituted copyright infringement because they were unauthorized derivative works of Pulp Fiction.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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43(B)log

AUGUST 11, 2022

Also: what about derivative works? So how do you build in that to recognize contribution to singular work v. creation of derivative work. In UK/Canada, joint ownership rules allow us to say “no derivative works without all of us agreeing.”

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