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McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Copywrong: Authors Miss the Mark(et Harm) when Arguing Meta Didn’t Engage in Fair Use

Weighing in just two days after Judge Alsup of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California issued his fair use summary judgment opinion in Bartz v. Anthropic, Judge Chhabria (also of the Northern District...more

Irwin IP LLP

Publishers Take a Hatchet to Free Digital Libraries

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On March 24, 2023, the Southern District of New York held that the Internet Archive (“IA”)’s digitization and lending online of the Hatchette Book Group (“Publishers”)’s copyrighted physical books infringed Publishers’...more

Weintraub Tobin

Is Trump’s Copyright Claim Against Woodward “Trumped Up”?

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Veteran investigative reporter Bob Woodward conducted an audio interview of former President Donald Trump for Woodward’s book, Rage. Woodward later released these recordings as a separate audiobook. Trump claims that Woodward...more

Hogan Lovells

Lindgren heirs win in dispute over Pippi Longstocking lyrics

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In a recent ruling by the Regional Court Hamburg (Case No. 308 O 431/17), the court awarded the heirs of children's book author Astrid Lindgren a right to information ...more

International Lawyers Network

“...this is my life”: Corporate Biography, Moral Rights & Being Slow To Berne

People often do quite well financially selling their life story. But stop and think for a minute what that statement means — “selling their life story.” The complex personal investment each writer makes in his/her craft and...more

McDermott Will & Emery

No Fair Use for Digital Excerpts

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Cambridge University Press et al v. Patton et al. - The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit vacated the district court’s decision holding that digital excerpts of books from three academic publishers provided to...more

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