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Fair Use for Documentaries in US Copyright Law: Brown v Netflix

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v.

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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

The law is an important part of protecting intellectual property and protecting creators’ rights to their original works. Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner.

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Authors: OpenAI’s Fair Use Argument in Copyright Dispute is Misplaced

TorrentFreak

The only claim that wasn’t contested by OpenAI is direct copyright infringement, which the company plans to address at a later stage. Among its arguments to dismiss the claims, the AI company cited fair use. “Fair use, of course, is an important—yet limited—feature of U.S. copyright law. .

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Publicly Posted PowerPoint ≠ Public Domain

Dear Rich IP Blog

Is it still considered copyright infringement to use them? How do you tell if materials are public domain or fit under fair use? Attribution is a thoughtful gesture, but providing the authors name or source will not excuse someone from a charge of infringement (or qualify the use as a fair use).

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Prince, Prince, Prints: Will the Supreme Court Revisit Fair Use?

LexBlog IP

1] That decision shook the art world, as it seems to dramatically narrow the scope of the fair use doctrine, and raises doubts about the lawfulness of many existing works. [2] Goldsmith counterclaimed for copyright infringement. It found that all four fair use factors weighed against fair use. [12]

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U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

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45 Years Ago Today, a New US Copyright Act Became the Law of the Land

Velocity of Content

The Copyright Act of 1976 became Public Law number 94-553 on October 19, 1976 and went into effect (as scheduled) as Title 17 of the United States Code on January 1, 1978. The new Copyright Act was the fourth general revision of copyright law since the original Act of 1790.

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