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The Copyright Legacy of Martin Luther King

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and 20th Century-Fox Records argued that, because King had distributed advance copies of the speech to the press without restricting them from reproducing or distributing it further (and without the copyright notice required under copyright law at the time), the speech was in the public domain. The defendants, Mister Maestro, Inc.

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Whither a Signal-Based Broadcast Treaty?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. Restrict the treaty’s terms to apply only to traditional broadcasting–linear radio and television broadcasting and cablecasting. No amendment offered in public session. No amendment offered in public session.

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Why Netflix’s “Bridgerton” Lawsuit is Good for Fan Fiction

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Multiple times throughout June and July 2022, Netflix informed Barlow & Bear’s lawyers that their July 26 performance wasn’t authorized and would give rise to claims for willful copyright and trademark infringement unless they negotiated a license—which Netflix was willing to do. Even better, it’s in the public domain.

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What Copyright’s “Unclaimable Material” Rules Mean for Hollywood’s Use of AI

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Material that is in the public domain. The same is true if AI is used for technical tasks—blurring out license plate numbers from reality show footage or performing color corrections. For purposes of a copyright registration, “unclaimable material” has historically included four types of material: Previously published material.

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Copyright Evidence: 21 for 2021 (a year in review)

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In this post, we offer an overview of the project to date, stratified across CREATe’s core research themes : Creative Industries , the Public Domain , and Competition and Markets. This provokes the question of how we can transplant evidence gleaned from one industry to another (in Barr’s synthesis, to television). Public Domain.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (March 20-March 25)

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The Court allowed the application and permitted the plaintiff to place the additional documents on record as despite the documents being available in the public domain at the time of filing of the suit, the need for filing the aforesaid documents arose only on account of the stand taken by the defendants in the written statement.

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SpicyIP Weekly Review (November 8-November 15)

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SpicyIP Tidbits: Compulsory License on Mira Behn’s Autobiography, and Stricter Test of Similarity of Marks for Medicinal Products. Eenadu Television A Division … on 8 November, 2022 (Andhra Pradesh High Court). Licensing Ip International S.AR.L Image from here. Therefore, the court proceeded with the matter ex-parte.

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