Copyright Law Fair Use Public Use 
Intepat
DECEMBER 25, 2024
While the raw data within a database may not be eligible for copyright protection, the originality involved in selecting, organizing, or arranging the data can bring a database under the scope of copyright law. This raises critical questions: What qualifies as originality in the context of database protection?
Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog
JULY 19, 2022
There’s a significant probability that someone already owns the rights to the content even if you cannot locate an explicit declaration stating that it is intended for public use. It would be preferable to obtain written authorization from the copyright owners before using the original content.
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Patently-O
APRIL 6, 2023
In that case, the Court found that Google’s use of Java API naming conventions in its Android operating system was fair use under copyright law. Because its fair use decision decided the case, the court did not rule separately on whether the API was even copyrightable in the first place.
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 5, 2022
In this case, the Supreme Court of Texas held that a government entity may reproduce, display, and utilize a copyrighted work for its own benefit without paying any compensation to the copyright owner. ” So, the question arises as to whether such “intellectual property” is “private property.” 1073 (2019).
LexBlog IP
JANUARY 10, 2024
It is strange because that would mean that the unpublished portions would also be government works available for public use. ” Thus, there are some copyright arguments or policies in play beyond those most immediately considered in the motion papers. italics added for emphasis in items (i)-(iii)).
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