SpicyIP

AUGUST 25, 2021

Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? In this post, I offer my independent analysis of the law in relation to comparative advertising and nominative fair use and apply it against the specific YouTube commercial mentioned above. student at Amity University (School of Law), Kolkata. Pragya Jain.

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IP and Legal Filings

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Nominative fair use of a trademark is a legal doctrine that can be used as a defence in some types of trademark infringement cases. Following are the measures to be taken care of while taking nominative fair use as a defence – The use of the registered trade mark was bonfide. No sponsorship or endorsement.

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TorrentFreak

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Some of McFree’s critical videos use copyrighted material owned by Watch Tower so in 2018, the group filed an application for a DMCA subpoena which asked a court to compel YouTube/Google to hand over his details. ” Fair Use Considerations. Overall then, the first factor weighs in favor of fair use.

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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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TorrentFreak

MARCH 25, 2025

Meta admitted the use of these unofficial sources early on. At the same time, however, the company denied the copyright infringement allegations, noting that it would rely on a fair use defense, at least in part. The authors said that the downloading of millions of books cannot be classified as fair use.

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Intellectual Property Law Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

s (AWF), [1] in a long-awaited decision impacting fair use under Section 107(1) of the Copyright Act. Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] Goldsmith and, as a result, did not constitute fair use. [2] 107), “when it conveys a different meaning or message from its source material.”

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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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43(B)log

APRIL 28, 2021

I've recently seen two examples of the following phenomenon: off of Amazon, an advertiser uses images of its product with another well-known product, and they do go together, but on Amazon, the advertising is different. Anyone know if there's an Amazon policy driving this?

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

MAY 9, 2022

Orbison song could be fair use because it transformed the original song by adding something new, with a different purpose, or a new meaning or message. have grappled with how broadly or narrowly to interpret the concept of transformativeness when assessing fair use defenses to charges of copyright infringement.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

Supreme Court agreed to review the Second Circuit’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s series of colorful prints and drawings of Prince were not transformative fair uses of Lynn Goldsmith’s photograph (for a previous comment on this case, see here ). In the lower courts, the Foundation and Goldsmith had been fighting a different battle.

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Copyright Lately

MAY 22, 2023

Five things to know about the Supreme Court’s new purpose-driven fair use opinion in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (“ Warhol “) is that relatively rare fair use case in which both the original and follow-on works were more or less directly competing in the same market. Andy Warhol Foundation v.

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Kluwer Copyright Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

This has been commonly referred to as TDM or “ text and data mining ”, one of the building blocks of machine learning and internet search technology. In the EU, TDM activities have relied on explicit exempting provisions enshrined in the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market ( CDSMD ).

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IPilogue

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

This past Monday, Osgoode’s very own Professor David Vaver delivered the 2021 Brace lecture on “User Rights: Fair Use and Beyond” as the series’ very first international speaker from outside the United States. The Court refers to it more specifically as a “user’s right”.

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Technology & Marketing Law Blog

JUNE 20, 2023

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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Copyright Lately

DECEMBER 29, 2024

But what the court referred to as an obscene tirade hardly warranted ordering Chicken Joe’s to pay a whopping $27,336.32 Fair Use Declawed. For now, theres cautious optimism that the court will help restore some sanity to fair use jurisprudence in the post- Warhol era. For that reason, Prepared Food Photos v.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 16, 2021

Trademark/unfair competition claims: these were all based on alleged use of the “Rose Bowl” mark in an Instagram post made on the Rose Bowl Stadium’s official Instagram account, together with an image of the official program from the 1956 iteration of the Rose Bowl Game. The Instagram post was before the court and was NFU.

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Copyright Alliance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In May of last year, the Supreme Court handed down its much-anticipated fair use decision in Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (referred to as Warhol throughout this blog). At the […] The post Fair Use in a Post-Warhol World: Part I appeared first on Copyright Alliance.

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43(B)log

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

A Few Words for a Lost Friend: Tribute to Dmitry Karshtedt (Bob Brauneis, Mark Lemley, Jake Sherkow) Closing Plenary Session: Fair use Robert Brauneis, Copyright Transactions in the Shadow of Fair Use Suppose a work does not infringe another work because and only because it’s been ruled a fair use.

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IP Tech Blog

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith, Andy Warhol not only used Ms. Goldsmith et al, Case No.

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43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

Is this relevant to fair use? Satire involves using the same style to clothe different ideas; therefore it shouldn’t infringe (lack of substantial similarity as in the Greatest American Hero case; German case law; perhaps the jury’s reasoning in the Kat von D case). W/o fair use, these tools are far more limited.

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TorrentFreak

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

However, the channel the ‘reference video’ was uploaded to has none of these qualities, the defendants say. The entire broadcast, to which Triller owns the copyright, lasted much longer – four hours in fact – meaning that any use of the Jake Paul fight by the defendants in their two-hour podcast was necessarily small.

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JD Supra Law

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

holding that non-commercial use of standards incorporated by reference into law is fair use and not copyright infringement. On September 12, 2023, the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia issued its opinion in American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) v. Public.Resource.Org, Inc.,

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Copyright Lately

JANUARY 23, 2024

The TLDR is that Sedlik owns a valid copyright in the Miles Davis photo, and Kat Von D admits to using the photo as a reference image to create her tattoo. This is the first case I’m aware of in which the owner of a copyrighted reference image has sued a tattoo artist for copyright infringement. The Good, the Bad and the.

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43(B)log

MAY 19, 2023

Looking at the side by side pictures in the complaint, this is a bit hard to swallow, but the evidence of copying/references to Roblox clearly bleed over from the TM side. The court also found that the alleged use of the Roblox name was not, as a matter of law, nominative fair use.

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JD Supra Law

MAY 19, 2023

Goldsmith issued earlier today is chock full of references to famous artists, famous works of art, famous musicians and famous celebrities dating back centuries. The Supreme Court’s decision in Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

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Copyright Lately

OCTOBER 20, 2024

At trial, American focused primarily on its trademark infringement and unfair competition claims, arguing that Skiplagged misled consumers by making itself appear like an authorized agent of the airline, in part by using American’s logo in ways that could cause confusion. Here, the jury sided with the airline, awarding $4.7

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IPilogue

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The District Court held that the French decision infringed Wofsy’s freedom of speech and that Wofsy’s books are “ reference works intended for libraries…and such institutions find it an attractive reference due to its price point and that astreinte (monetary damages for copyright infringement) do not apply because of the US’s fair use doctrine.

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SpicyIP

JANUARY 29, 2025

In this post, I will discuss the last two issues and the two contentions I referred to in the first part. Is Training of GenAI Models Fair Use?

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The IP Law Blog

APRIL 8, 2021

Finding Google’s copying a fair use, the Supreme Court ended Oracle’s decade-long attempt to recover copyright damages. In designing the mobile platform, Google independently developed most of the code but copied what the parties referred to as “declaring code” for 37 application programming interfaces, or APIs.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 22, 2023

The Supreme Court ruled on May 18 that Andy Warhol’s “Orange Prince” work of pop art was not a fair use when licensed to Condé Nast in 2016. ” Goldsmith’s photograph was then licensed to Vanity Fair in 1984 for $400 as a “one time” “artist reference for an illustration.”

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LexBlog IP

JUNE 2, 2023

The Supreme Court recently upheld an appellate court’s ruling that Andy Warhol’s use of a photograph of Prince as a reference for a collection of screen prints is not fair use – to the extent his foundation decided to license them at least. Goldsmith, Andy Warhol not only used Ms.

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LexBlog IP

JULY 7, 2023

A pair of copyright decisions issued in May, one involving the appropriation artist Richard Prince [1] and the other involving works portraying the musician known as Prince, explore and expand on the “fair use” defense to copyright infringement. On May 11, the U.S. 2] A week later, the U.S. 3] Graham v.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 3, 2022

The school district invoked the fair use defense and moved to dismiss the claim for failure to state a claim. The Fifth Circuit addressed the fair use defense noting it balances protecting an author’s work and permitting others to reference them in cultural conversation.

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LexBlog IP

MAY 18, 2023

In 1981 Andy Warhol used a photograph made by Lynn Goldsmith as reference for an illustration of the musician Prince. Vanity Fair magazine had hired Warhol to make the illustration; it was to accompany an article about Prince in the magazine’s November 1984 issue. Goldsmith had issued a limited license for this purpose.

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Traverse Legal Blog

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For non-celebrities, it can prevent emotional distress caused by unauthorized use of their identity. International Variations: Similar rights exist in other countries, often referred to as “personality rights” or “rights of persona.” Sony Music Entm’t, Inc. , 3d 1134, 1145 (9th Cir.

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IP Watchdog

MARCH 5, 2023

David Oppenheimer’s case against Douglas Prutton was referred to the CCB by the U.S. Oppenheimer admitted that he copied and displayed the photograph without permission, but said his adult daughter actually found the photo and placed it on his site, and also argued fair use and unclean hands in defending his use of the work.

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Copyright Lately

JUNE 2, 2022

In a 30-page order, the district court largely denies both parties’ motions for summary judgment, finding triable issues on substantial similarity and fair use. and High Voltage Tattoo) asked the court to determine that the use of Sedlik’s photo as a reference image qualified as a fair use of the copyrighted work.

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