The widow and son of the man who wrote the 1983 article that inspired the original “Top Gun” are suing Paramount Pictures over its sequel, “Top Gun: Maverick.”

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The company argued Monday in federal court in Manhattan that the fair-use provision of the Copyright Act shields it from liability for infringement.

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Google Inc. has removed from its online Chinese library project scanned pages of a book over which its author is suing the U.S. company for infringing her copyright, according to her lawyer. Sun Jingwei, lawyer for 39-year- old Chinese writer ...

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Shepard Fairey, the artist whose “Hope” election poster of Barack Obama hangs in the National Portrait Gallery, told a New York judge that the Associated Press licenses images of artists’ work without permission. The claim was made during AP’s copyright-infringement ...

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Shepard Fairey, the artist whose “Hope” image of President Barack Obama was added to the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, sued the Associated Press over the news company’s copyright challenge to the artwork. Fairey seeks to “vindicate” himself after the ...

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