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Court to Revisit Fair Use in Tattoo Infringement Case

Copyright Lately

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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Digitalization And Copyright Law

IP and Legal Filings

Digital Era And Copyright Infringement- Issues Easy Accessibility Online Now days the use of internet and online based systems has increased manifolds and it is no more a complex task to gather or collect any data from the internet. Case Laws The first case in this regard is UTV Software Communication Limited v.

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WIPIP 2022, Session 3 (ROP/TM, (c) fair use)

43(B)log

Even where permission not legally required, thought was better results due to advances in technology—social media influencing: the advertiser wants customized content. Saying “this is what people do” compared to “this is the law” is very useful. A: History differs a lot—US foundation for ROP was set much earlier.

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2021 Internet Law Year-in-Review

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

First, governments can never successfully operate a social media service. Of course, mobs, riots, rebellions, pogroms, lynchings, and other coordinated killings have taken place throughout human history, well before social media existed. social media has played an outsized role in finding and prosecuting the insurrection.

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Announcing the 2022 Edition of My Internet Law Casebook

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

e-personation case (an edge case from a different era), and the decade-old social media e-discovery cases (mainstream CivPro by now). Taylor about true threats on social media. The Florida and Texas social media censorship laws and the associated court challenges. Note About Fair Use.

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Generative AI: the US class action against Google Bard (and other AI tools) for web scraping

Kluwer Copyright Blog

The defendants’ wholesale collection and use of copyrighted material, with no option for copyright owners to opt out, would exceed the legal interpretation of “fair use” (see VHT vs Zillow Group , 918 F.3d 2000) (“ copying an entire work militates against a finding of fair use. ”). 4th 1149 (9th Cir.

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Kat Von D, Think Before You Ink

IPilogue

Sedlik claims that Kat Von D infringed the copyright protection of his iconic photograph of world-famous jazz musician Miles Davis (“Davis”) when she tattooed the image onto a client’s body without authorization and posted photos of the tattoo on social media. Fischer found triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use.