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Will eBook Ruling Impact Fair Use Analysis for Generative AI?

Intellectual Property Law Blog

It noted that an eBook recast from a print book is a paradigmatic example of a derivative work and the changes involved in preparing a derivative work can be described as transformations.

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Nintendo’s Actions Demonstrate Our Intellectual Property Laws are Broken

JIPEL Copyright Blog

It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work. It adds new sections to the opening menu of the original game, allowing players to access the added online features. It also modifies the game itself through its netplay and rollback functionality.

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AI and Fair Use: Navigating Legal Challenges in India and the United States

IIPRD

Limiting the use of copyrighted works for AI training may too heavily constrain development, and free use threatens to drain the economic rewards that reward the creators. One of the biggest problems is the vagueness around AI-generated outputs and whether these are derivative works.

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Intersection of Copyright and Moral Rights: Protecting Creators’ Integrity

Intepat

Copyright law primarily focuses on the economic rights of creators, granting them exclusive control over the use and distribution of their works. These rights include reproduction, distribution, public performance, and the creation of derivative works.

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Supreme Court Rules adaption of Warhol print not “fair use”

Indiana Intellectual Property Law

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.

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Copyright Catfight?

BYU Copyright Blog

The University disputed that Boyages owns all copyright in and has exclusive rights over the contested work. It is important to note that Boyages claimed that her logo was original and not a derivative work. They also admitted displaying the logo as described by Boyages but did not believe such use was unlawful.

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Supreme Court Finds Warhol’s Commercial Licensing of “Orange Prince” to Vanity Fair Is Not Fair Use and Infringes Goldsmith’s Famed Rock Photo

Intellectual Property Law Blog

Acuff-Rose Music could not be interpreted to mean that fair use defense could be applied to works so broadly as to include works that share substantially the same purpose and use, including the commercial nature.

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