The COPYKAT: "Faceswap" for the Statue of Liberty, trade wars, and embezzlement

Posted on July 18, 2018 by lawhukukinet

It's been an exciting few weeks for copyright around the world. This CopyKat takes a look at three "David vs Goliath" disputes, in which parties (respectively) include the US Government, Fifa and an 8 year-old boy, and one of Africa's largest telecoms companies. Also in the news: YouTube rolls out its anticipated Copyright Match tool, copyright collecting societies in Kenya continue to struggle with accountability, and China launches an IPR awareness campaign.Lady Liberty "faceswap" will cost the United States Postal Service $3.5MBetween 2011 and 2014, the United States Postal Service (USPS) used an image of the Statue of Liberty for its Forever Stamp series (a type of First Class postage stamp). Unfortunately for the USPS, the image they chose was not actually of the famous statue that towers over New York Harbor designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi in 1886. Instead, the image they chose was actually Robert S.…

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