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'Philpot v. Independent Journal Review'
In 'Philpot v. Independent Journal Review', the Fourth Circuit reversed the district court's findings regarding fair use and copyright registration validity.
Phone Home: Inflatable Alien Costume Held Copyrightable
To ring out the old year on an otherworldly note, the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a preliminary injunction in a case involving the unauthorized copying of an inflatable adult Halloween costume that created the "whimsical" illusion that the wearer was being carried around by a seven-foot-tall green space alien.
'Kerson v. Vermont Law School'
In 1993, Kerson and the Vermont Law School entered into an agreement for Kerson to paint two murals on the walls of the upper level of the Chase Community Center. During the summer of 2020, the law school's president received a petition demanding the removal of the murals. Kerson sued the law school, seeking a preliminary injunction enjoining it from placing panels over the murals, invoking his rights under VARA.
'Thaler v. Perlmutter': AI Output is Not Copyrightable
The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia recently upheld a final refusal by the U.S. Copyright Office to register a visual work that was not the product of human authorship but was instead created by a computer algorithm. The sole legal issue of the case, Thaler v. Perlmutter, was whether a work autonomously generated by an AI system is copyrightable.
Accrual of Authorship Claims: 'Finch v. Casey'
A discussion of 'Finch v. Casey' concerning 99 songs co-written by Richard Finch and Harry Wayne Casey—aka KC—while they were members of KC & The Sunshine Band in the 1970s. The case is "one of only a handful of cases touching on the interplay between the Copyright Act's statute of limitations, and its termination-of-transfer provisions."
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Copyright on the Bubble: A Look at 'Slice of the Ice' Dispute
With the Stanley Cup just around the corner, this month's column deals with a recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Grondin v. Fanatics, which involves an item of hockey memorabilia called "Slice of the Ice," a "Lucite sculpture in the approximate shape of the Stanley Cup, with a hockey puck–shaped piece in the center filled with melted ice gathered from the rink used in a prominent hockey game."
No Fair Use of Picasso Art Images: 'De Fontbrune v. Wofsy'
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently adjudicated a fair use claim involving photographs of hundreds of works by perhaps the only 20th century artist even more famous than Warhol: Pablo Picasso.'Hanagami v. Epic Games': One Small Step …
The question before the court was whether the alleged "sameness" was substantial enough to amount to copyright infringement.
'Morford v. Cattelan': If Two Artists Tape a Banana to a Wall …
The precedential value of the 'Morford' decision will probably be slim to none.
'Gray v. Hudson' Rules on Copyrightability of Musical Elements
The decision articulates the current state of Ninth Circuit law regarding the threshold of protectable originality in music infringement cases, and because so many music cases are brought in the Ninth Circuit the ruling will likely be significant to music litigators nationwide.TRENDING STORIES
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