Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

However, publishing companies had been continuing to collect royalties on behalf of songwriters even after the rights were reclaimed due to the law saying that publishers can continue licensing any existing derivative works.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

A recent article by Austin Mace at Screenrant highlights comments made decades ago by Batman co-creator Bill Finger regarding Batman’s first appearance in Detective Comics #27, published in May 1939. . The similarities are incredibly obvious. But, it didn’t happen in 2022. It happened in 1939. A licensee alone couldn’t file a case.

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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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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 17, 2024

In 2022, Lokka faced Finland’s Supreme Court over videos of a 2016 protest published to his YouTube channel, to which Lokka added subtitles in various languages. With parody status unavailable, the content posted to Twitter was confirmed as an unauthorized derivative work, distributed by Lokka, in breach of copyright.

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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. According to the claimants, this would be demonstrated, among others, by the fact that, when prompted, ChatGPT generates summaries of plaintiffs’ copyrighted works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Legal Background: Copyright and Derivative Works Copyright law protects original works of authorship, including “pictorial, graphic, and sculptural works,” 17 U.S.C. For obvious reasons, the copyright in a photograph does not include the right to publicly perform the copyrighted work.

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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.

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The IP Law Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

The author plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI infringed on their published works by using these works to help train its LLM. The plaintiffs alleged that OpenAI copied their published books, which are protected by copyright law, and used them in a training dataset for its LLM.

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The IPKat

JUNE 7, 2022

Carey’s song "All I Want for Christmas Is You" was published on her fourth studio album Merry Christmas and released as the lead single from the album on 29 October 1994. the copyright holder’s exclusive right to reproduction, derivative works, distribution and display the work publicly).

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TorrentFreak

JANUARY 6, 2023

YouTube’s main defense to Schneider’s copyright claims in other works is that it holds a “ blanket catalog license ” granted by Modern Works Music Publishing (MWP). According to YouTube, that license covers all of Schneider’s musical compositions, so Schneider’s infringement claims cannot succeed.

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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Following a twenty-year hiatus that ended in 2019, a new crop of works has entered the U.S. In 2023, this will include all works first published in 1927. Note that works remain protected until the end of the calendar year. Extending Rights in Public Domain Works. public domain each year on January 1.

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TorrentFreak

JULY 14, 2024

Mr. Parrish published internal LifeWise documents and the entire copyrighted LifeWise Curriculum on his website [Parents Against LifeWise]. According to LifeWise, the “curriculum exists as part of a license agreement between Lifeway Publishing and LifeWise Academy.” Parrish does not support LifeWise’s mission.”

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IP Watchdog

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Copyright Office issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) in the Federal Register to clarify the application of the derivative works exception to copyright termination rights within the context of blanket licenses administered under the Music Modernization Act (MMA). On October 25, the U.S.

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The IPKat

JULY 2, 2021

At one end, there are the Jane Austen afficionados, who have read the entire corpus of her published novels (or, even if not all of them, have an affinity for “Emma”). Even if so, for the “All-In” group, the movie, as a derivative work, remains tethered to the literary work. view) such derivative works.

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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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IP and Legal Filings

MAY 3, 2024

Copyright Law Copy Right is a legal concept that gives creators exclusive rights over their original works and allows them to control the use and distribution of those works. These rights generally include the rights to reproduce, distribute, perform, publish and create derivative works.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

While the occasional commercial use of a tattoo in a video game remains rare, tattooers use copyrighted material in their work on a regular basis. It’s also far more likely that major publishers and studios have timely registered their works, entitling them to statutory damages.

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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. Is the Sale of a Single Item a “Publication”?

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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. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Vanity Fair decided to publish an article about the rock singer Prince in a 1984 magazine. Vanity Fair then commissioned Andy Warhol to prepare an art work of Prince to accompany the article and supplied him with the Goldsmith photograph as a source material. The Court will review that decision in the fall of 2022.

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SpicyIP

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Soon after, four major publishers – Hachette, Penguin Random House, Wiley, and HarperCollins, challenged this lending programme and sued the Archive for copyright infringement. Upholding the ruling given by the District Court, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit gave a verdict in the publishers’ favour.

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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. I saw 10 different SAD Scheme cases in her name). It’s clearly based on the original and clearly adds new expression. Would fair use apply?

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Creative Commons licenses come in different flavors (and different versions ; if you opt to use one on your work, it is probably prudent to use the most recent version—and even more likely prudent to make sure you understand what it actually says). CC licenses are not per se “online only” but they are impractical offline.)

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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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The IPKat

JANUARY 25, 2022

The cover provides the requisite information—title, author, and publisher. Indeed, it is Benjamin's notion of the aura, where each work of art has its own unique setting, which underscores just how derivative its use is when applied to a book cover. But it also includes the reproduction of a portrait of a young woman.

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Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

This article was originally published in The Scholarly Kitchen. It is somehow different from the right to make transformative derivative works (where the word “transformed” is used in Section 101 ) such as film adaptations of books, which clearly require copyright owner consent. These cases are not against AI.

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Olartemoure Blog

APRIL 14, 2023

The trademark claimed that it had the rights over the photograph and published it on its social media as advertising , without the authorization of the author. However, the court disagreed with Deadly Doll’s claim, and analyzed whether the photograph could be considered a derivative work.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 5, 2022

Berkovitz alleged that the Defendants infringed his exclusive right to reproduce, make copies, distribute, or create derivative works by publishing the midterm exam and final exam on the Course Hero Website without permission. His complaint named John Does 1-5 as placeholders for the students to be identified during discovery.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 16, 2021

Second, if the person who does the remastering wishes to obtain copyright, they should not limit themself to contributions that are too mechanical or minimal, as the latter would be unlikely to be considered original derivative works. 2018 New York University Law Review, p. by Tito Rendas. € by Martin Senftleben. €

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BYU Copyright Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The Professors allege that following this termination, the College has continued to use materials from the Work in its course offerings without the permission of the Professors. These uses have purportedly included violations of rights of reproduction, distribution, display, and preparation of derivative works.

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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’.

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TorrentFreak

MAY 17, 2022

You agree not to archive, reproduce, distribute, modify, display, perform, publish, license, create derivative works from, offer for sale, or use (except as explicitly authorized in these Terms of Use) content and information contained on or obtained from or through the Netflix service.

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Kashishipr

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Each work has various rights, such as theatrical rights, distribution rights, rental rights, broadcasting rights, rights related to adoption and translation, rights to prepare derivative works, and so on, each of which can be exploited separately. These rights can be disjointedly assigned for a limited term or perpetually.

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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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JIPL Online

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

These derivative works are not always supported or authorized by the original game publishers. Publishers and mod creators may soon become caught between the desire to provide freedom to players and the need to protect intellectual property rights. The ramifications of this practice are unclear.

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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. §

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BYU Copyright Blog

MAY 20, 2024

Not Past the Post Yet Commercial Educational Materials,University May 20, 10:08 AM May 20, 10:07 AM In October 2021, we first published a blog post on a case filed by Post University against Course Hero.

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