by Oliver Ruiz | May 18, 2023 | Blog, Copyright
The Supreme Court issued a decision today In a highly-followed case involving fair use defenses that were asserted by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts. The Foundation asserted the defenses in a case that alleged that Andy Warhol’s use of photographs of the...
by Kelly Malloy | Jan 23, 2023 | Blog, Copyright
The term of copyright protection in Canada was recently extended from fifty (50) years after the life of the author to seventy (70) years after the life of the author. This significant change went into effect on December 30, 2022, as part of Canada’s Budget...
by Kelly Malloy | Nov 15, 2022 | Associate, Blog, Copyright
As an update to a blog entry on June 18, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard Unicolors, Inc. v. H&M Hennes & Mauritz, LP in February of this year. By way of background, H&M argued that Unicolors’ copyright registration was invalid because Unicolors...
by Jonathan Woodard | Oct 11, 2022 | Associate, Blog, Copyright
Andy Warhol, renowned artist who passed in 1987, created a piece of art depicting Prince, one of the most famous musicians of all time. In creating that artwork, Warhol relied on an image taken in 1981 by photographer Lynn Goldsmith. After suing Warhol’s foundation...
by Cleo Suero | Sep 27, 2022 | Associate, Blog, Copyright
Back in January, Miami-based artist Joe Morford filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Florida alleging Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s viral duct-taped banana sculpture, Comedian, is “plagiarized”. In the Complaint, Morford argues that Cattelan’s work is...
by W. John Eagan | Sep 6, 2022 | Blog, Copyright
A number of artificial intelligence image generators have seen a rise in popularity lately due in part to the increasing availability of access to various platforms. Their ability to generate images from text prompts raises numerous possibilities and questions, not...
