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Was Batman a Plagiarism?

Plagiarism Today

Though the Copyright Act of 1909 did protect derivative works, the doctrine of invisibility made it so that you needed the “copyright proprietor”, or the owner of the entire copyright, to file the lawsuit. That, in turn, brings us to the legal issues, which are also more complex. A licensee alone couldn’t file a case.

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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

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. Beginning in 1955, adaptations of the stage play for television begin.

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Jury Awards Damages to Tattoo Artist for Video-Game Depiction–Alexander v. WWE 2K (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

As my prior work on the tattoo industry highlights, there is a universal understanding among tattooers that clients have the right to display their tattoos in public, take and post photos that feature their tattoos, and appear in media like film or television without any fear of copyright infringement.

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

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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Rounding Up Recent Copyright and AI Rulings

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

See Star Trek: The Next Generation: Schism (Paramount television broadcast Oct. Having done so, the only remaining equitable issue is the use of the copyrighted works for training purposes. The court says: Star Treks Data might be worse than ChatGPT at writing poetry, but Datas intelligence is comparable to that of a human being.

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How to Avoid Pitfalls on the Way to Decentralized Disney

Copyright Lately

Meanwhile, television rights management company IDDH (International Rights and Divers Holding) , the supposed source of Squemme’s IP interests, liquidated all of the assets it had over twenty years ago and looks to have been defunct since 1999. (By Want to Create New Derivative Works? The warning signs were all there.

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Miramax, Tarantino and a Fight Over Bright Shiny Objects

Copyright Lately

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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