Intepat

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Yet, the rapid rise of podcasting has left many creators overlooking critical legal considerations specific copyright licensing. Without proper licensing, podcasters risk legal disputes that could undermine their creative efforts. The licensee can use the work only within the scope specified in the agreement.

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TorrentFreak

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Affirmative Defense – Fair Use. Right off the bat, the defendants assert that anything they did in connection with their GTA 3 and Vice City projects were actions protected by fair use under the Copyright Act. The doctrine of fair use bars the relief sought by Plaintiff,” the response adds.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JANUARY 9, 2023

May I use it? Is it public domain or fair use? It's also possible that the police department has created its own policy and granted blanket permission for informational purposes, or that licensing only requires attribution. When ruling on fair use, courts consider four factors. Public domain? What to do?

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Copyright Lately

AUGUST 14, 2023

Fischer denied both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues of substantial similarity and fair use. Among other things, the court held that there was a factual dispute as to whether or not defendants’ purpose in using Sedlik’s image of Miles Davis was “commercial.”

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Plagiarism Today

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

1: ‘GTA’ Reverse-Engineer Modders Defend Projects as Under “Fair Use”. First off today, Will Nelson at NME reports that video game modders are fighting back against a lawsuit filed by Rockstar Games claiming that their fan-created mods are a fair use, not a copyright infringement.

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SpicyIP

MAY 2, 2022

You can see his previous posts for us here. New(s) Questions and Fair Use: Using Copyright to Curtail Expression? In response the Defendant claimed, “ fair use” and “ de minimis” use. A mere quantitative analysis of the duration of content used does not matter. Akshat Agrawal.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

MARCH 3, 2022

The school moved to dismiss on fair use grounds, and the district court granted the motion and awarded attorneys’ fees to the school. (I Bell appealed to the Fifth Circuit, which easily affirms the fair use dismissal and attorneys’ fees. Nature of the Use. ” Bell sued anyways. Nature of the Work.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JANUARY 18, 2025

With respect to the Jordan video, I assume the video was infringing when uploaded to Twitter, which is why a license argument wouldn’t work. Those licenses were explicitly and unambiguously laid out in YouTube’s Terms of Service, and the sublicense clearly extends to embedding the video.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 17, 2022

Copyright Office Argues Warhol’s Use of Prince Photo Was Not ‘Fair Use’. First off today, Jaron Schneider at PetaPixel reports that the United States Copyright Office has weighed in on the Andy Warhol case, telling the Supreme Court that they feel Warhol’s paintings were not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photos.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v. Netflix , Inc. ).

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In 2013, Philpot uploaded the photo to Wikimedia Commons, which is governed by the standard Creative Commons license requiring attribution. Philpot claims his standard photo licensing fee is $3,500, but reuses of the photo from Wikipedia Commons didn’t require any payment (just attribution). ” Market Effect.

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Traverse Legal Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Misinterpreting Licenses: Incorrectly assuming permission to use copyrighted material. Fair Use Misconception: Believing that a particular use falls under fair use guidelines. Utilize Fair Use: Use copyrighted material within fair use guidelines, such as for educational purposes.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 31, 2022

2: Amendment Passes to Grant Teachers Fair Use of Copyrighted Work Remotely. Next up today, Focus Taiwan reports that the Taiwan legislature has passed a new copyright law that would grant educators a fair use protection when using copyright-protected works via online classes.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 16, 2022

The estate, however, has argued that Warhol’s creations were a fair use. Both sides have filed prehearing briefs and the estate is asking for a more narrow inquiry into the issues, asking whether the paintings are protected under fair use and are transformative.

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The IP Law Blog

MAY 25, 2023

Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Andy Warhol’s portraits of music legend Prince did not qualify as fair use under copyright law. She emphasized that both uses were commercial in nature, making them substantially similar in purpose. In a closely watched copyright case, the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Copyright termination is a process through which creators that licensed their works can reclaim their rights after a set period of time. Ratajkowski fired back, claiming that the photo didn’t qualify for copyright protection and that her use was a fair use. Cunningham. back in 2016.

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IP Watchdog

MAY 18, 2023

Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was correct in holding that the Andy Warhol Foundation's (AWF's) licensing of an orange silkscreen portrait of the musician Prince, created by Andy Warhol using photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s photo, was not fair. The Supreme Court ruled today in Andy Warhol Foundation v. that the U.S.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Implied License – Second, Take-Two could have argued that, by placing the tattoo on Randy Orton, that Alexander granted an implied license for it to be used as part of his image, including on TV, film and video games. In short, the jury only weighed in on the fair use question, which they found the use to not be fair.

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JD Supra Law

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Affirming the application of the fair use defense to copyright infringement, the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit determined that a district court’s sua sponte invocation of a fair use defense to parallel trademark claims was harmless error.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

1: Judge: Jehovah’s Witness Parodies Are Fair Use. The judge ultimately ruled that any use of Watch Tower material was a fair use and ordered the subpoena quashed. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. Watch Tower: So What?

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Plagiarism Today

MARCH 3, 2022

However, the lower court tossed the lawsuit, saying that the use was a fair use, and awarded the school some $10,266.37 Finally today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Oracle and NEC have reached a settlement in their dispute over NEC’s use of Oracle’s database software.

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The IPKat

JULY 7, 2024

case concerning the creation and dissemination of a meme on social media saw the Court of Appeals clarify that “the fact that everyone else is doing it is not a particularly compelling justification” for the fair use doctrine under 17 U.S.C. § emphasizing that the four statutory fair use factors should not be considered separately.

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43(B)log

MARCH 1, 2022

25, 2022) “The softball team and flag corps at a public high school outside Fort Worth used their Twitter accounts to post a motivational passage from sports psychologist Keith Bell’s book, Winning Isn’t Normal.” He sued; the court of appeals affirms a finding of fair use on a motion to dismiss and an award of attorneys’ fees.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 23, 2023

On May 18, the Supreme Court addressed the issue of “fair use” in copyright law, specifically in relation to the petitioner Andy Warhol Foundation’s (AWF) commercial licensing of a Warhol print entitled “Orange Prince” based on respondent Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph of the artist Prince Rogers Nelson, better known simply as “Prince.”.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

In an ever more fragmented digital landscape, this provision has become a key instrument of self-regulation, playing a crucial role in the allocation of rights and obligations around the licensing of copyrighted works as training data (see here ).

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SpicyIP

MARCH 29, 2025

In doing so, the essay highlights the paradoxical stance of companies on training other ML systems using the output generated by their own ML systems and discusses the copyrightability of ML system-generated output, if any.

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IP Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2024

For their part, some GenAI companies like OpenAI argue that there is no infringement, either because there is no “copying” of protected materials or that the copyright principle of fair use uniformly applies to generative AI activities. These arguments are deeply flawed and gloss over crucial technical and legal issues.

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Plagiarism Today

MAY 19, 2022

2: Delhi HC Seeks Expert Help on Whether Event Firms Need License to Play Music at Weddings. Next up today, The Wire reports that the Delhi High Court is seeking an outside expert to assist in determining whether event firms in the country should be required to obtain a license to play music at weddings and other gatherings.

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IP Watchdog

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Companies rely on copyright protections to shield their software, data sets, and other works that are licensed to their customers; however, a reframing of what constitutes a “transformative use,” and the extent a license can restrict such fair uses, may whittle away all avenues of protections.

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TorrentFreak

MARCH 26, 2025

In response to the claims, Anthropic didn’t deny that it might have used lyrics to train its model but argued that’s permitted under fair use. Anthropic argued that it would be complicated to prevent the use of current and future lyrics as training data, as these are available across the Internet.

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Plagiarism Today

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Fitzpatrick’s videos includes reviews of manga and anime offerings and often makes use of the source material but in a limited capacity. According to Fitzpatrick, he ensures that himself and those that work for him follow both YouTube’s fair use policy and the various countries that they operate in.

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Plagiarism Today

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He claimed he owned the production bible that the original show was based upon, and Disney did not seek permission or license its use in the reboot. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

AUGUST 2, 2021

In the case, Nicklen argued that a photographer or videographer that uses Facebook or Instagram to promote their content should not automatically give up the right to license it to third parties, such as Sinclair. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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Plagiarism Today

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

According to a video he uploaded, his videos will remain available in countries with a broad fair use exemption, like the United States, but not in countries like Toei’s native Japan that have narrow exemptions. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 16, 2021

It does so at the Rose Bowl Stadium under three contracts with Pasadena, including a Master License Agreement, Trademark Agreement, and Trademark Consent Agreement. Under these agreements, PTRA is the exclusive owner of the Rose Bowl Game trademark and owns the mark for use in connection with the annual game.

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Plagiarism Today

APRIL 19, 2022

The court, in this case, rejected the test as well as Newsweek’s fair use arguments. The 3 Count Logo was created by Justin Goff and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License. However, with the case being settled, it is unclear what, if any, impact that will have moving forward.

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Plagiarism Today

OCTOBER 25, 2021

De La Santos mentions these allegations in his response to the lawsuit, which also makes arguments of fair use and that he is an “innocent infringer,” an argument that could potentially lessen any damages against him. 3: Music Publishers Propose Higher Streaming Payments.

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