TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

io but active on hundreds of forums, websites and social media accounts. Filed in a California district court, the complaint names Andrew Thorpe (aka ‘Krypto’), Jonathan Aguedo (aka ‘Overpowered’), Wesam Mohammed (aka ‘Grizzly’), and Ahmad Mohammed, as the key people behind Ring-1, an operation run from Ring-1.io

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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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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Photographer Jeff Sedlik filed the lawsuit in February 2021 , claiming that Von D infringed the copyright in his photo of Miles Davis by tattooing a reproduction of the image on her friend Blake Farmer’s arm and by displaying images of the tattoo on her social media accounts.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 2, 2022

performances of “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical”) or other derivative works that might compete with Netflix’s own planned live events,” including the multi-city “ Bridgerton Experience.” As always, let me know what you think, either in the comments below or @copyrightlately on social media.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 6, 2022

Want to Create New Derivative Works? This still wouldn’t necessarily have given the buyer carte blanche to create new derivative works featuring the characters, as opposed to, perhaps, digital screengrabs from individual episodes. You Should Probably Read The License.

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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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Copyright Lately

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At the same time, those aspects of the character’s evolution that don’t appear until later works may still be eligible for copyright protection. While later iterations of a character may be protected, you can’t bootstrap the copyright in a derivative work to extend protection on the original work.

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Velocity of Content

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In my first post in this series, after discussing the basics of good copyright practice for bloggers (and other creators whose distribution is primarily through social media sites), I went on to look at the DMCA and how it may be seen as a useful first-line-of-defense bit of IP protection for content first appearing on such sites.

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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. The 21-year-old is the sole director of MMH Group Holdings which plays host to 3 businesses: Filter, MMH International and FM Cosmetics.

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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. As always, I’d love to know what you think.

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LexBlog IP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Specifically, the judge said that for their vicarious copyright infringement claims to remain viable, the plaintiffs would have to at least allege that derivative works created using AI programs that generate images in response to user prompts are “substantially similar” to their original copyright-protected works.

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 25, 2023

Think of human modifications to AI as a quasi-derivative work—the copyright in a derivative work only extends to the material contributed by the author of that work , as opposed to the underlying material. Importantly, however, there will still be no copyright protection in the AI-generated material itself.

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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] Section 106 of the Copyright Act grants copyright holders an exclusive right to make or license derivative works based upon a previously copyrighted work. [11]

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LexBlog IP

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It’s probably not easy to be famous in the age of social media. According to Morton and her legal team, the cropped images created by the algorithm are derivative works violating her copyright.

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IP Tech Blog

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China?

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Copyright Lately

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

As for the co-ownership claims (which weren’t alleged in Scott’s original lawsuit), they’re premised on the theory that Scott had the “exclusive right” to produce derivative works of his bible and scripts. But I’d like to hear your thoughts: let me know in the comments section below or on social media @copyrightlately.

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IP and Legal Filings

JANUARY 23, 2023

The media industry as a whole encourages creativity and innovation, and copyright is crucial for digital media platforms. Media platforms, such as social media, are utilised to carry out their professional, commercial, and private functions. They serve as a medium for new ideas, images, and sounds.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

AUGUST 1, 2023

How are photographers supposed to get the attention of those publishers without displaying samples of their work? In other words, the gist of the case is whether the photographers surrender their right to exclude others by voluntarily posting their own photos to social media.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 21, 2022

Players rallied against Nintendo’s actions, causing #FreeMelee to trend across social media and throughout the gaming world. It is an open legal question whether this would constitute an infringing derivative work. Nintendo’s Statement After Issuing its Cease-and-Desist Letter via Email , November 19 th , 2020.

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JIPEL Copyright Blog

MARCH 9, 2022

The museum industry, it would seem, is taking note of technology’s growing role in its operations, particularly in regards to visitor engagement and staying relevant in a social media-driven society where declining visitation rates have only been exacerbated by the ongoing pandemic.

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Velocity of Content

APRIL 30, 2024

Shumaker: What’s the status of social media content or content made available without charge by policy think tanks, public interest groups, and the like? In the case of AI, I think both NC (non-commercial) and ND (non-derivative works) provisions may be involved. Does CCC license these types of content now?

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JIPL Online

APRIL 9, 2021

Basically, corporations must employ someone willing to scour the internet and report such infringing content by either filing Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) takedown notices, reporting such individual posts via the methods provided by social media platforms, or both. Stearns, Todd J. Zywicki & Thomas J. vii] Deidrè A.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 3, 2022

So while some may take solace in the fact that this particular ruling was about the recreation of a tattoo in a video game, if the court’s ruling were to stand, it could effectively prevent anyone with a tattoo from appearing on film or even in a photo posted on social media without a jury weighing in on fair use.

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Copyright Lately

APRIL 19, 2022

It certainly hasn’t helped that the same word is used in the Copyright Act to define a derivative work (a work that is “recast, transformed , or adapted” from a pre-existing work), which in the absence of fair use is reserved to the copyright owner. anyone who posts any sort of repurposed content on social media).

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Corsearch

MARCH 13, 2023

We also provide a full suite of Entertainment Availability and Copyright search offerings which include a Full US Copyright Search, enabling you to learn everything about the original copyright, registration, renewals, and all derivative works for the copyrighted work.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

In an aside that no doubt made the MPAA smile, the Court also confirmed that unauthorized derivative works like book-to-film adaptations won’t pass muster under the first fair use inquiry merely because they have a different aesthetic than the works they borrow.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In a ruling reminiscent of a case I’ve previously discussed involving “Sherlock Holmes,” the court held that any copyrights Harvey still held in its later derivative works couldn’t be used to enlarge the scope of protection for works already in the public domain. Happy Halloween!

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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. NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 1, 2023

Chrissy has created an unauthorized derivative work of the SpongeBob track (which probably won’t make Sire Records happy), but she likely hasn’t implicated any copyright interests in the UMG-owned Drake recordings that were used by Janet to train the original model. .” ” VMG Salsoul, LLC v.

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Selvam & Selvam Blog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Section 14 of the Copyright Act, 1957 provides all rights, including further development, translation, reproduction, publication, communication to the public among others, exclusively to the owner of the work. Here’s the To-Dos for the Creators before working on a remix!

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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. NFTs can be based on three-dimensional items or artwork, or can be purely digital creations—for example, a collectable digital sneaker or a token used in a videogame.

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 31, 2023

Weigh in in the comments section below or hit me up on social media @copyrightlately. ” “The exclusive rights of the owner of copyright in a sound recording. ” 17 U.S.C. § I suspect he want to do that, as federal judges have greater experience in interpreting and applying federal law.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

8] Second, as to the works’ purpose, the court found that it was unclear whether Prince intended to create a parody of the original photographs, a satire of society’s use of social media, or neither, pointing out Prince’s own contradictory testimony on the question. [9] Many derivative works.

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LexBlog IP

APRIL 13, 2022

According to Miramax, the creation of the NFTs constituted copyright infringement because they were unauthorized derivative works of Pulp Fiction. [23] [were] far too narrow for him to unilaterally produce, market, and sell the Pulp Fiction NFTs.” [22].

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LexBlog IP

JANUARY 4, 2023

Given that NFTs are the result of digital work that is transported in images, videos, photography and other forms of digital media, copyright seems to be the closest IP right to protect both the source code of the digital work, as well as its derivative works. Is this the same in the US and China?

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43(B)log

AUGUST 4, 2023

Xuan-Thao Nguyen, Tech Bros, Social Media, and the End of IP Financing? Reproduction and public display are the main alleged rights violated (with lots of overlap); only 71 derivative work claims. Ideas are nothing without financing. Banks will not give loans secured by patents; banking law constraints.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JULY 24, 2024

While study of social media and online platform private ordering is a very well-established way to find out how providers deal with copyright, data protection and consumer protection, studies of generative AI T&C have been slower to get going.

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