No Fair Use! If you got here some other way and wish to play Is it Fair Use?, go read the problem first! The court agreed with Bouchat that the nostalgia value outweighed the historical value. If you think about, the two often go hand in hand*. The stadium displays...
When History Really Just Commercial Nostalgia? Last week I wrote about a copyright lawsuit involving the Baltimore Ravens, and in so doing, managed also to mention the San Francisco 49ers*. They both won their respective games and will now meet in the Super Bowl. In...
Fair Use! (If you got to this page by accident, and want to see the problem (and play “Is it Fair Use?”), click here. The court held that the use of the logo wasn’t really commercial (because no one bought a ticket to a game to see the logo), the use was...
A Case that Just Keeps Giving to Copyright Lawyers It’s been a long time since our last edition of the fast-paced game that’s sweeping the nation, Is It Fair Use? Yes, I’ve been busy, but the real reason is that there just haven’t been any...
You might recall Rick’s epic 6-part blog about the Oracle v. Google case and what it teaches about copyright protection in software. A formal (and condensed) version of those posts has been published by @Law in its Winter 2012–13 edition as an article:...
