Nice Copyright! Too Bad it’s Unregistered Updated February 4, 2019: The Supreme Court ruled today, essentially adopting the “registration rule.” See Tara’s blog post. In the United States, we have a stupid way of dealing with copyrights. Here it is:...
Answer: YES, FAIR USE! Ha! This was an easy one, wasn’t it? Read the opinion here. (If you got here without reading the problem first, click here and ignore the giant letters above.) It’s obviously not fair use. I mean, it’s not very transformative, the photograph is...
Is Ignorance Relevant to Fair Use? It’s time once again for Is It Fair Use?, the mind-bending, pulse-racing game that’s sweeping the nation.1Since 2011! By our estimates, if the game had started sweeping the nation in Miami, it will have spread as far as Hialeah by...
Last week, Paul filed an amicus brief in the Funk v. Scripps defamation lawsuit on behalf of thirteen national media entities and a national public interest group in the Tennessee Supreme Court. The brief challenges a limitation on the fair report privilege that...
The Wonderful World of Copyright Damages in Software Cases OK, so I’ve been talking—at length—about the Federal Circuit’s recent rejection of Google’s fair use defense for its use of the way Java’s API libraries are organized. So, you might be wondering what’s...
