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Do Your Employees Understand Your Company’s Copyright Policies? (Most Don’t)
Think about your company’s intellectual property: the patents, the trademarks, the creative materials produced by your employees or contractors and protected by copyright. Ask any of your colleagues...
View ArticleWhat Is Real Art? The Debate Continues
If you ever took the 7 train through Queens before 2014, you probably rode right past 5Pointz. And depending on your artistic leanings, you might have been impressed by the splashes of color and paint,...
View ArticlePractical Steps for Creating a Corporate Copyright Policy
Any original work of expression written, recorded, or otherwise captured in some fashion is protected by copyright. That includes art, music, and literature, as well as research, news, blogs, and...
View ArticleCopyright Perspectives: “Appropriation Art” – Transformative Use, or...
Richard Prince is a visual artist, working in photography. His images are exhibited in galleries and sell for thousands of dollars. There’s no ambiguity about that. For decades, his work has been...
View ArticleHow Does Publication Bias Affect Medical Literature?
There’s a trend in medical literature that’s misleading both patients and practitioners: publication bias. The practice of positive trials having more chance of being published than negative ones, and...
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Copyright Perspectives: VidAngel – Devil or Angel?
Can a company edit a feature film into something new and sell it for financial gain? On August 24, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals left standing a lower court’s order barring the Utah-based company...
View ArticleManaging Intellectual Property in the Era of the Socially Responsible...
Kraft Heinz released a 70-page document outlining its first-ever corporate social responsibility (CSR) plan, according to the Chicago Tribune. The plan includes the promise to use only eggs from...
View ArticleA Question of Morals: Plagiarism, ‘Moral Rights’, and Copyright Infringement
“This case could not have been brought under U.S. copyright law [because], in the United States, we draw a somewhat hazy line between copyright infringement, a legally actionable offense, and...
View ArticleIFRRO Members are Responding to the Challenges Posed by the Coronavirus Pandemic
Republished with permission from the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) Many IFRRO members are developing and adapting licences to provide access for students,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: A Story of Fair Use & Unfair Dealing
Earlier this week, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, issued his long awaited decision about the Copyright Law amendments sitting on his desk, and wisely sent the bill back to the Parliament...
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Blackbeard’s Ghost Still Sails the Seas of Copyright!
Our colleague, Chris Kenneally, recently released a podcast interview on the topic of “Are State Governments Copyright Pirates?” So, this seemed like an opportune time to update the following blog...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to UNESCO on “A Draft Text of a Recommendation on the Ethics...
Let me begin by observing the wisdom of this undertaking, and expressing my appreciation to UNESCO for its vision in examining the development of AI from the standpoint of its impact on culture —...
View ArticleEU Court Shreds Banksy’s Claim of Trademark
A couple of years ago, a certain street artist made it into the headlines when he used a mechanical shredder to destroy one of his images immediately after it had sold at auction for $1.4 million. He...
View ArticleIFRRO Addresses the Invalidation of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
At the end of September, the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organizations (IFRRO) hosted a webinar on the impact of the July decision by the Court of Justice of the European Union...
View ArticleCASE Act Provisions Are Now Law
In 2019, I posted about the CASE (‘Copyright Alternative in Small-Claims Enforcement’) Act, which was then a standalone bill in the Congressional hopper. That session of Congress has now expired, but...
View ArticleNew York Enacts New Post Mortem Right of Publicity
New York State has created a right of publicity for certain deceased NY residents (“performers” and “personalities”) that can be enforced by the deceased’s heirs (or beneficiaries under the will),...
View ArticleFact-Checkers For Europe
The European Digital Media Observatory, established in June 2020, hopes to counter fake news and other digital disinformation with facts and research across the European Union. EDMO plans to work with...
View ArticleIFRRO Members are Responding to the Challenges Posed by the Coronavirus Pandemic
Republished with permission from the International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) Many IFRRO members are developing and adapting licences to provide access for students,...
View ArticleSouth Africa: A Story of Fair Use & Unfair Dealing
Earlier this week, South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa, issued his long awaited decision about the Copyright Law amendments sitting on his desk, and wisely sent the bill back to the Parliament...
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Blackbeard’s Ghost Still Sails the Seas of Copyright!
Our colleague, Chris Kenneally, recently released a podcast interview on the topic of “Are State Governments Copyright Pirates?” So, this seemed like an opportune time to update the following blog...
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