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. Beginning in 1955, adaptations of the stage play for television begin.
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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LexBlog IP
JULY 28, 2021
CBS Corporation, Brian Koppelman, David Levien, and Andrew Ross Sorkin, alleging copyright infringement over the hit Showtime television show Billions. Specifically, Shull alleged that one of the show’s main characters, Dr. Wendy Rhoades, is an unauthorized derivative work based on her book. Showtime Networks Inc.,
IPilogue
DECEMBER 20, 2021
Cosplay (or “costume play”) is the act of dressing up as a character, often from anime, video games, comics, television, or film. In the United States, copyright holders have the sole right to prepare derivative works , including major copyrightable elements of an original, previously created work.
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.
Copyright Lately
MAY 6, 2022
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.
Plagiarism Today
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
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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