Tag: Derivative work
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Ed Sheeran vs Marvin Gaye & Why AI & Copyright Might Kill Art
Love this video from Adam Neely about the Ed Sheeran case vs Marvin Gaye (well actually vs SAS investment banker trying it on, Ed Townsend died years ago). I do think it’s a stretch, as a mashup artist I’ve heard so many things like that, it’s not a direct lift. You cannot own a genre!…
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The Story of Techno Viking
I found Matthias Frisch’s documentary about the whole Techno Viking case via another video “The Meme that Sued It’s Creator’ which pretty much sums it up in one line. Matthias Frisch filmed the man who became Technoviking at Fuck Parade in Berlin in 2000, but it later became a meme and out of control of…
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Horace goes IP Trolling
Octav1us, game reviewer and lover of 1980’s games has been attacked by a copyright troll – Paul Andrews of Subvert. (I do name and shame even if she’s understandably too scared and worried to do it – so bite me. She used Horace from the ZX Spectrum games, but the guy who was one of…
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Want to help change the arcane UK copyright law?
Some of you will know about the Gowers report on Copyright which recommended the loosening on rules around ‘fair use’ in the UK similarly to US rap groups and parodies in the US. Now according to the wonderful Open Rights group they are looking for examples from artists to give Patent Office where more relaxed…