Tag Archives: fair use

• Would Germany and France find the red bus photo infringed?

  Posted on 三月 5, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  By Rosie Burbidge @ The Art and Artifice Again the inspiration for this post comes from the 1709 blog organised red bus seminar last week. Brigitte Lindner provided a fascinating comparison of the way the German and French courts would have approached the red bus problem. A very general summary of her talk is below. Subsistence France follows a fairly [...]

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• Hargreaves Review: Fair Use and Fair Dealing

  Posted on 三月 2, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Gillian Spraggs on Action on Authors’ Rights In March we put in a submission to the Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth, led by Ian Hargreaves. Hargreaves’ report was published on 18 May. This is the first in a series of posts which will summarise and examine Hargreaves’ recommendations on copyright. It will cover his proposals on fair dealing. All [...]

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• Copyright in [reporting] a murder case

  Posted on 二月 10, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Elizabeth Emerson @ Art and Artifice Some unusual discussions on copyright infringement were raised last month following the sad case of murdered infant Declan Hainey in Scotland. Declan’s body was found in March 2010, having been hidden for some months by his mother Kimberley Hainey. In December 2011 Kimberley Hainey was convicted of her son’s murder, [...]

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  Cariou v. Prince: Infringement by Appropriation Art

  Posted on 一月 19, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Michael M. Ratoza Photos were taken. Photos were appropriated into new art forms. Copyright infringement claims resulted. Patrick Cariou’s photographs of Jamaican Rastafarians were published by PowerHouse Press in 2000. The book contains photographic portraits of Rastafarian individuals plus images of Jamaican landscape. Following publication, the well-known “appropriation artist” Richard Prince commenced appropriating many of these photographs [...]

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• I Know Fair Use When I See It: A Copyright Complex

  Posted on 一月 17, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Rick Sanders I’m starting a new occasional series called, “Is it Fair Use?” where I set out the facts from an actual copyright or trademark decision involving fair use, and you get to guess how the court ruled.* *  This idea is completely ripped off from one of my absolute favorite law blogs, The TTABlog.  [...]

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