Traverse Legal Blog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

Licensing 52

Licensing Derivative Work Intellectual Property Moral Rights 52

The IPKat

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Who receives the credit and the licensing rights? And who poses moral rights in the work? McDonagh discusses the emergence of the author figure as the owner of a dramatic work by analysis of authorship and ownership of plays from the Elizabethan period up to the early twentieth century.

Copyright Law 145

Copyright Law Moral Rights Copyright Law 145

Velocity of Content

MARCH 16, 2023

After all, while we are pondering the weighty issue of future ownership, we are not focusing on the fundamental issue of wholesale copying of works to train AI in a wide variety of situations. Each of these cases is unique, fact dependent, and likely, if fully litigated on the merits, to shed light on different aspects of copyright law.

Litigation 98

Litigation Fair Use Copying Derivative Work 98

LexBlog IP

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

As more and more projects in these fields adopt open-source licensing, the legal complexities tied to these licenses are becoming increasingly relevant, with dual licensing being a case in point. Second, altering the license could alienate a project’s community, leading to forks or abandonment.

Licensing 40

Licensing Derivative Work Intellectual Property Moral Rights 40

The IPKat

AUGUST 15, 2023

Instead, the issues are what rights subsisted in Kante's work, whether the Defendants were entitled to use them in the Levitating Remixes and, if so, under what terms. Separately, if someone records samples to be used on your song, absent an agreement to the contrary, it may be that they own the rights to those recordings.

Copyright Infringement 52

Copyright Infringement Music Copyright Contracts 52

SpicyIP

DECEMBER 30, 2023

The decisions in the first category, i.e., Top 10 IP Cases/Judgements (Topicality/Impact) reflect those that we thought were important from a topical point of view and were covered by the media in some way owing to the importance of parties litigating or the issue being considered or for impact on industry and innovation/creativity ecosystem etc.

IP 112

IP Copyright Trademark Intellectual Property 112

43(B)log

AUGUST 9, 2024

We’re in a very different place: now Google can do no right on Capitol Hill. Marketa Trimble: Under Nevada law, have to comply with other countries’ laws to be licensed for online gambling in Nevada. Authors’ rights are designed to protect that intellectual and emotional bond. Balance of power has changed.

Fair Use 59

Fair Use Moral Rights Law IP 59