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When is it Fair Use to Use a Photo to “Illustrate” an Article?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

One of the practices that has generated a sizeable number of disputes and rulings is the use of photos to illustrate articles. These three cases address fair use in this context. McGucken moved for summary judgment on the fair use defense. The second factor weighs slightly against fair use.

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Fourth Circuit Issues a Bummer Fair Use Ruling–Philpot v. IJR

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

This is what I call a “commercial editorial use”–ad-supported editorial content. Courts routinely split on whether commercial editorial use is commercial for fair use purposes. ” Market Effect. The court says it presumes harm with a commercial non-transformative use. 21-2021 (4th Cir.

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How Fair Use Favors OpenAI in the ANI Lawsuit

IP and Legal Filings

Fair Use is one of the principles being mooted in defense of OpenAI to argue that the latters Use of the formers copyrighted content fits within Fair Use thresholds and is, thereby, justifiable. 2015), also known as the Google Books Case. [2]

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How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research (Cross-Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

[I published this post initially on the Association of Research Libraries blog in celebration of Fair Use Week 2022. Bloggers play an increasingly important role in the research ecosystem, especially as investigative journalism has declined. Fair use is supposed to protect research bloggers in these circumstances.

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Don’t Film So Close To Me: Can Copyrighted Music Keep Vids of Police Encounters Off The Internet?

The IP Law Blog

This would include a belief that the display or performance of the copyrighted material in the video was covered under fair use. So would the inclusion of the Taylor Swift or Sublime song recorded in the police/civilian interaction videos mentioned above constitute fair use?

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Legal Analysis Of Copyright Issues In YouTube And Other Social Media Content

IP and Legal Filings

Both individuals and organisations may now share, communicate, and market their goods or themselves. Copyright law is in charge of controlling how literary, artistic, and theatrical works, among others, are used. Social media sites include a number of tools for this purpose, such as re-posting, sharing, and re-tweeting [1]. 1 (2022).

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Authors Accuse OpenAI of Using Pirate Sites to Train ChatGPT

TorrentFreak

That said, it is no secret that some AI projects have trained on pirated material in the past, as an excellent summary from Search Engine Journal highlights. The Washington Post previously reported that the “C4 data set,” which Google and Facebook used to train their AI models, included Z-Library and various other pirate sites.