TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

is one of the most interesting cases in history to rely on a fair use defense, arguing that the alleged infringement qualifies as a parody. ” 2 Live Crew had previously sought to license the track from Acuff-Rose to be used as a parody; Acuff-Rose refused and 2 Live Crew used it anyway. .” Campbell v.

Copyright 141

Copyright Derivative Work Fair Use Reporting 141

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 30, 2025

March 25, 2025) Anthropic previously agreed to maintain its guardrails designed to prevent “output that reproduces, distributes, or displays, in whole or in part, the lyrics to compositions owned or controlled by Publishers, or creates derivative works based on those compositions.”

Copyright 52

Copyright Publishing Copyright Infringement Licensing 52

SpicyIP

APRIL 15, 2024

Discussing the implications of unauthorized use of materials for training Generative AI models, we are pleased to bring to you this guest post by Goutham Rajeev and Vedant Bharadwaj Singh. Training GenAI: Infringement or Fair Use? The authors are third year students at the Hidayatullah National Law University, Raipur.

Fair Use 49

Fair Use Copyright Infringement Derivative Work Copyright 49

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.

Fair Use 59

Fair Use Marketing Marketing Licensing 59

LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

On May 18, 2023, the Supreme Court found that artistic changes to a pre-existing work, alone, not necessarily sufficient to make a derivative work fair use. Applying a new lens on how to view the purpose of a derivative work under U.S. copyright law. Copyright law in the U.S.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Derivative Work Copyright Law Art 52

Copyright Lately

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. His main argument was that the photo couldn’t be considered an infringing derivative work simply because it captured Deadly Doll’s design.

Copyright 102

Copyright Derivative Work Artwork Fair Use 102

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?

Derivative Work 105

Derivative Work Public Domain Copyright Fair Use 105

SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Discussing the decision of the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in Hachette Book Group v. Internet Archive, our fellowship applicant Tanishka Goswami explains the implication of the decision on fair use. The NEL was held to be a derivative work, and the Archive’s lending practices violative of copyright law.

Copyright Law 105

Copyright Law Copyright Fair Use Law 105

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.

Blogging 144

Blogging Fair Use Copyright Infringement Licensing 144

IPilogue

JULY 18, 2022

The focus of the conflict was the meaning of “transformative works” in the U.S. Copyright Act —whether Warhol’s print is transformative of the original photograph so that it qualifies as fair use. As an avant-guard artist of his time, Warhol used the mechanical process of copying to challenge the conventional notion of art.

Copyright Law 111

Copyright Law Copyright Law Art 111

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").

Fair Use 40

Fair Use Copying Publishing Licensing 40

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.

Derivative Work 72

Derivative Work Fair Use Art Copying 72

LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Yesterday, the Supreme Court held 7-2 that a specific use of Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” silk screen—based on a copyrighted photograph of Prince—was not fair use. The first factor did not apply to Warhol’s image as published in Condé Nast in 2016, so that specific use was not fair use.

Fair Use 40

Fair Use Derivative Work Licensing Copyright Infringement 40

TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

Parrish used unauthorized means to obtain the password-protected LifeWise Curriculum only accessible by paid employees of LifeWise who have been issued login credentials,” the allegations begin. Mr. Parrish published internal LifeWise documents and the entire copyrighted LifeWise Curriculum on his website [Parents Against LifeWise].

Copyright 124

Copyright Licensing Fair Use Derivative Work 124

IPilogue

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the United States, copyright holders have the sole right to prepare derivative works , including major copyrightable elements of an original, previously created work. However, users’ rights provisions ( fair use in the United States and fair dealing in Canada) may provide a legal basis for fan creations to exist.

Copyright 122

Copyright Television Copyright Infringement Derivative Work 122

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.

Litigation 98

Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

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!

Music 109

Music Derivative Work Fair Use Cease and Desist 109

Kluwer Copyright Blog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The plaintiffs are authors of books, who, as per US copyright law, have registered copyrights in the books they published. Even if the plaintiffs did not consent to the use of their copyrighted books as training dataset, their copyrighted materials were ingested and used to train ChatGPT.

Copyright 98

Copyright Derivative Work Copying Copyright Infringement 98

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.

Fair Use 82

Fair Use Art Copyright Derivative Work 82

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. The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. Goldsmith , 598 S.

Fair Use 105

Fair Use Licensing Art Music 105

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JULY 19, 2024

As part of a SAD Scheme case, she claims an Amazon seller infringed on her work. Here is the comparison: This looks like a derivative work to me. Would fair use apply? It’s clearly based on the original and clearly adds new expression. This post focuses on the case economics.

Derivative Work 96

Derivative Work Blogging Fair Use Licensing 96

JIPEL Copyright Blog

APRIL 28, 2021

Sites like AO3 provide fanfiction authors with a forum to publish their works, as well as huge audiences from around the world to consume them for free. The problem is that most fanfiction could be characterized as derivative works of other already existing original works, as defined in 17 U.S.C. §

Derivative Work 45

Derivative Work Fair Use Copyright Marketing 45

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.

Copyright 96

Copyright Fair Use Copyright Law Copyright Infringement 96

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.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Derivative Work Art Licensing 52

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.

Derivative Work 59

Derivative Work Cease and Desist Blogging Litigation 59

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.

Copyright 52

Copyright Derivative Work Fair Use Copyright Law 52

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?

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Derivative Work Settlement Copyright 52

SpicyIP

JUNE 26, 2024

Data published by the World Blind Union in 2014 indicated that less than 10% of published material was available in accessible format for persons with visual impairment, and most such material was only available in English, thereby leading to a ‘book famine’.

Copyright 81

Copyright Copying Publishing Cinema 81

SpicyIP

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A Look at the Revised Patent Prosecution Timelines in the Draft Patent Amendment Rules The Draft Patent (Amendment) Rules, 2023 were recently published in the Gazette of India, with public comments invited by September 22. Other Posts The Times They Are a-Changin’?

Cease and Desist 105

Cease and Desist Patent Prosecution Trademark Derivative Work 105

Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

Netflix was decided after the Supreme Court managed to make fair use even more complicated in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Polychron, seen here in Transformers: Rise of the GoBots , self-published a book called The Fellowship of the King , which was the first of a planned seven-volume sequel to J.R.R. Even though Cramer v.

Copyright 111

Copyright Copyright Infringement Music Fair Use 111

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. law calls a “derivative work,” a way of transforming, recasting or adapting copyrighted material, for example, as with a movie based on a novel.

Licensing 52

Licensing Fair Use Copying Copyright 52

The IP Law Blog

JUNE 15, 2023

In 2019, the Ninth Circuit agreed with the lower Court that Zillow was “not liable for direct, secondary, or contributory infringement;” however, it had concluded that “Zillow’s addition of searchable functionality on the Digs home design webpages was not fair use.” Likewise, Zillow used each photo independently to market home designs.

Copyright 98

Copyright Registration Licensing Derivative Work 98

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.” Hutchings, however, never retracted her claim that the book was dictated to her from beyond the grave. Dawn of the Dead.

Copyright 145

Copyright Cinema Copying Copyright Infringement 145

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.” The district court agreed, but was reversed by the Second Circuit, which found the degree of new expression insufficient to justify a finding of fair use. ” (S.

Fair Use 52

Fair Use Licensing Art Music 52

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. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We can infer from this opinion that treatment of Copyright Management Information (“CMI”) will be tricky for generative AI developers.

Blogging 132

Blogging Licensing Privacy Copyright Notice 132

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.

Copyright 81

Copyright Derivative Work Music Designs 81

Velocity of Content

JANUARY 15, 2025

Copyright law grants authors and other creators specific exclusive rights over their work, including the rights to reproduce, distribute, and display the works, and to create derivative works such as translations or adaptations. Copyright law protects not only the overall work (e.g.,

Licensing 52

Licensing Copyright Copyright Law Copying 52