‘Tis Often Better to Willfully Withhold Royalties than Exceed the Scope of the License You are a licensee to many, many copyright licenses, whether you know it or not. Most of them—such as the ordinary applications you have on your computer, or song files you’ve...
Answer: YES, FAIR USE! Note: If you arrived at this page from elsewhere and want to play Is it Fair Use, stop reading and click here. The Court held that TVEyes’ service was fair use. You can read the entire opinion here. As with so many fair-use decisions, most...
Do the TVEyes Have It? Welcome back to another episode of Is it Fair Use?, the fast-paced, brain-teasing game that’s sweeping the nation1Really, really slowly.! TVEyes charges $500 a month to monitor about 1400 television and radio stations, 24 hours a day, seven days...
Fair Use! Note: If you came here from elsewhere and want to play Is it Fair Use, stop reading now and click here instead. Read the opinion, if you want. Not Bad, Just Misunderstood The concept of “transformative use” goes in for all kinds of abuse, some of which may...
Is it Fair Use? We haven’t played Is it Fair Use? since we started the IP Breakdown (though we had several editions on our firm site). If you aren’t familiar, it’s the fast-paced game that’s sweeping the nation1Very slowly. where I present you the facts of a recently...
