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. Even better, it’s in the public domain.

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Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

JULY 19, 2022

Additionally, they have the final say in how their work is published, broadcast, streamed, adapted, and exhibited. Exclusive rights may inspire producers to produce more works to share with the public. Because their effort might be beneficial for the improvement of their life, the general public may also profit from it.

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Larson & Larson

JUNE 21, 2021

The publication date, for instance, plays a considerable role in copyright protection. Copyright law provides that for any work published after 1977, the copyright protection will last during the author’s lifetime plus an additional seventy years. . The duration of copyright protection is often date and fact-sensitive.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

But socially valuable innovations can be difficult to marketize/commodify. Restrict derivative right to adaptations/forms of representations that change medium, not works in same primary market. Hughes: if publisher can’t get sequel rights, then it will insist on getting the film rights and impoverish authors. public domain.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Apart from revolutionizing the creative markets, the ability to obtain new artworks with an increasing marginalization of human contribution has inevitably tested the fitness of copyright legislations all over the world to deal with the so-called “artificial intelligence” (‘AI’). ChatGPT , Smodin ), to perform music (i.e., Secondly, para.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

DECEMBER 13, 2023

And many of the sites where the data is collected also have prohibitions on automated data collection and web scraping in their terms of use. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.

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43(B)log

DECEMBER 20, 2022

But also, the documentaries weren’t substantially similar, and, “even if the 2013 Documentary is substantially similar to the 2001 Documentary under the fragmented literal similarity test due its use of clips from the 2001 Documentary, Plaintiffs’ claim with respect to this documentary is barred by the fair use doctrine.”

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

This compromise explains an otherwise surprising feature of the cases: Political speakers and religious speakers can often expect worse outcomes than “commercial” publishers engaged in noncommercial speech, given the kinds of cases brought against them. TM bullying w/ a public domain quilt, claiming rights over “Dear Jane” as quilt/software.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 21, 2023

As Professor Farley and I discuss in Part II of our paper, several circuits require a commercial use of the mark for infringement (or an exception for noncommercial speech) and dismiss lawsuits without applying all of the likelihood of confusion factors if the unauthorized use of the mark is not commercial speech. Redbubble, Inc. ,

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