JIPL Online

MARCH 15, 2021

7] Before the court could decide if the subtitled version, a type of derivative work, could still be protected even if the underlying film on its own was available to be used by all, both parties settled. [8]. 2] Eriq Gardner, Netflix Settles‘Enola Holmes’ Lawsuit With Conan Doyle Estate , The Hollywood Reporter (Dec.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides that “fair use of a copyrighted work … for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching … scholarship, or research is not an infringement of copyright.” [7] The nature of the copyrighted work. The effect upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. [8]

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

Yet especially in the business-to-consumer or “B2C” context, these ToS have often been reviled as largely unread, not understood, and creating an abusive relationship of imbalance of power in monopolistic or oligopolistic markets. in Europe through the Copyright in the Digital Single Market Directive and the Digital Services Act ).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 19, 2023

Specifically, a group called Spice DAO purchased an NFT displaying a copy of filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky’s ‘Dune’ for $3 million, assuming it would grant them the ability to produce derivative works, such as an animated Dune series.

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

x] In fact, on the contrary, memes can operate as a source of marketing and a way to garner interest in creative works in a funny, generationally relevant way. xi] There are countless articles and marketing studies directing corporations on how to market via memes to reach the maximum level of engagement. 511, 523 (2012).

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Intellectual Property Office Blog

JULY 29, 2021

A huge chunk of Molly Mae’s success comes from social media channel Instagram, where she is reported to charge over £10,000 for each sponsored post. As well as ISAWITFIRST, Love Island has 9 sponsors this year and it’s been reported that each brand was asked to pay at least £100,000 to be affiliated with the show.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Triller said that the operators of the H3 Podcast “unlawfully uploaded, distributed, and publicly displayed” the fight in breach of its rights, causing damages in excess of $50,000,000 after the “unauthorized broadcast” was viewed a reported 1,000,000 times.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2023

In the EU, a crucial legal issue is whether using in-copyright works to train generative AI models is copyright infringement or falls under existing text and data mining (TDM) exceptions in the Copyright in Digital Single Market (CDSM) Directive. Under US law, is the output a “ derivative work ” of the “ingested” copyrighted works?

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

Miramax claims, among other things, that the preparation and sale of these derivative works constitutes copyright infringement because the contractual rights Tarantino reserved in his 1993 agreement with Miramax don’t cover NFTs. The breathless media reports soon followed.

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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.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

An article in the Hollywood Reporter earlier this week suggested that there’s finally been some movement between the parties with respect to generative AI, as studios recognize that copyright protection in AI-generated scripts is only possible for those works if they’re revised by human writers.

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IP Tech Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners. And in February 2022, Nike, Inc.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 24, 2023

The defendants’ use of the tattoo—”part of a visual and auditory compilation depicting the public’s overwhelming fascination with and reaction to Joe Exotic in the early days of the pandemic”—qualified as criticism, comment, or reporting and was therefore quintessential fair use.

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Intepat

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Since fanfiction often uses parts of these original works, its seen as a “derivative work”, which means it’s based on something already created. According to Section 14 of the Act, you usually need permission from the original creator to write derivative works. In the case Amar Nath Sehgal v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. 17 of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market (DSM Directive). Top 3 Kluwer Copyright Blog posts.

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The IPKat

OCTOBER 1, 2022

market of the dress, but, without the tag and its associated stamp of historical authenticity, a knockoff teddy corset dress does not support a consumer’s participation in the Dolce & Gabbana story. Marketing a design as iconic might support as much as undermine secondary meaning. In this negative space of copyright law in the U.S.,

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Intepat

JANUARY 8, 2024

Training AI models using these works could infringe on these rights, especially without authorisation. 1) Section 106 Exclusive Rights : Section 106 of the Copyright Act of 1976 grants copyright owners exclusive rights to reproduce, prepare derivative works, and distribute their copyrighted material.

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The IPKat

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Pastiche Kat Earlier today, The IPKat reported on the new referral to the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Pelham saga, this time concerning the notion of ‘pastiche’.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. More typically, two works aren’t market substitutes, which means that determining whether a secondary use is justified is more difficult.

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The IPKat

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The song, and specifically the part of Bad Bunny´s voice and style of lyrics, was reported by his fans to be so much like Bad Bunny that had them fooled. As such it could be argued that it has no direct impact on the market for the original by allowing an AI to hear or see a copy to be able to create by training its algorithm.

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LexBlog IP

MARCH 18, 2022

Most NFTs are protected under US Copyright Law as creative works and/or may be derivative works based on pre-existing copyright-protected works. Those statistics show increasing awareness of the NFT market and likely some FOMO (or “Fear of Missing Out”) on the part of brand owners.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

Nation Enterprises boldly proclaimed that the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work was “undoubtedly the single most important element of fair use.” But this problem can be avoided so long as judges are discerning about distinguishing between legitimate markets from speculative ones.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 19, 2023

Upon failure to resolve the matter privately, AWF filed suit against Goldsmith, seeking a declaratory judgment that Warhol’s works did not infringe Goldsmith’s copyright in the original photograph, or, in the alternative, Warhol’s works constituted fair use of the subject photograph. [1]

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

” On April 26, UMG held an earnings call in which it reported that revenues rose 11.5% It’s a new issue and there’s been some fresh reporting on it with some recent developments. year over year to $2.71 And we’re happy to have the opportunity to be very, very clear about our view of the legal landscape.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

seems like this is going to have trouble with derivative works] Amanda Levendowski, Fairer Public Benefit Bias and harms of works aren’t taken into account in fair use analysis: recruits a legal tool typically aimed at one set of problems for the purpose of cleverly addressing a different set of problems. Goldsmith’s photos).

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 16, 2023

To ensure you don’t miss out on interesting IP law developments reported on our other IP blogs, we will, on a regular basis, provide you with an overview of the most-read posts from each of our IP law blogs. ” 3) How to Distinguish Transformative Fair Uses From Infringing Derivative Works? It will focus on the s.10(3)

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43(B)log

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

But this was a license to Microsoft, and Campbell argued that Microsoft wasn’t allowed to reproduce, distribute, and publish the Sowers photo as part of others’ advertising model (including news reporting). Instead, Campbell argued that she intended to prohibit further sublicensing. Amount: the whole photo.

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 5, 2023

Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides that “fair use of a copyrighted work. for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 26, 2023

Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides that “fair use of a copyrighted work. for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching. The nature of the copyrighted work. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 7, 2022

Unicolors’s business model is to create artwork, copyright it, print the artwork on fabric, and market the designed fabrics to garment manufacturers.” Copyright Office, Annual Report of the Register of Copyrights, Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2008 , at 12–13 (2008). Factual and Procedural Background. 3d 1194 , 1196 (9th Cir.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 7, 2023

is non-alienable and, therefore, is still very beneficial to authors, despite its evident shortcomings (such as the exclusion of “works for hire” and derivative works, as well as the requirement of notice from the author to effect the termination rights). By contrast, the 35-year termination right in the U.S The IPO, in Prof.

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SpicyIP

MAY 23, 2024

Eastern Indian Motion Pictures , ruled that under Section 17(b) and 17(c), Copyrights Act, 1957, once an original work becomes a part of a cinematograph film, the rights of the authors of underlying original work no longer subsist. The European system views every creative work inalienably as an extension of author’s personality.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

As previously reported on this blog , non-fungible tokens (or “NFTs”) recently emerged as one of the hottest new items on the art market—artists, auction houses, museums, sports organizations and others have jumped at the chance to create and sell their own versions of these unique tokens. Miramax LLC v.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

Copyright Act grants authors five exclusive rights: “to reproduce the copyrighted work in copies or phonorecords”, “to prepare derivative works based on the copyrighted work,” “to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public,” “to perform the copy­righted work publicly,” and “to display the copyrighted work publicly.”

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But socially valuable innovations can be difficult to marketize/commodify. Music sampling: the tapestry/raw materials of early hip-hop practice make those kinds of works works assets that can’t attract investment. The solution they’re working on is not shared in most cases, so it would be hard to find intent to merge.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 21, 2021

As that report noted: The study’s most conservative estimate.takes into account only the revenues of faith-based organizations, [and] is $378 billion annually … By way of economic perspective, this is more than the global annual revenues of tech giants Apple and Microsoft combined.Our second mid-range estimate. ” Id.

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TorrentFreak

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Therefore, the software creating an unauthorized derivative work. For additional clarity, the CJEU clearly states that under the specific circumstances of this case, Sony cannot prevent Datel marketing its cheat devices/software. In 2012, the Landgericht Hamburg (Regional Court) partially upheld Sony’s claims.

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