ANSWER: YES, it is a fair use. (Click here to find out what the question was). The court didn’t think this was a very close question*: Here, applying the statutory factors from Section 107 of the Copyright Act and the principles behind the fair use doctrine, the court...
Welcome to Our Second Episode of “Is it Fair Use?” This opinion by Judge J.D. Stadtmueller in Brownmark Films, LLC v. Comedy Partners is pretty close to priceless, dealing, as it does, with South Park’s send-up of the notorious “What What (in the Butt)”...
Why I’ve Admired Steve Jobs Since 1980 When Steve Jobs passed away last week, it felt almost (but not quite) like a death in the family. It’s a little hard to explain why. Sure, I’ve been using Apple products since around 1980 (I can’t remember the exact year my...
And the World of Internet-Privacy Law Is a +.01% Better Place As we saw last time, Tennessee has recognized “intrusion upon seclusion,” a flavor of invasion of privacy, since at least 2002, but until now, the cases had been so unusual that we didn’t know very much...
Or, How One Really Bad Idea Helped Clarify Tennessee Privacy Law Burnette v. Porter is about as non-technological a case as you’ll find. The Internet plays a minor role, which mostly just shows how ubiquitous the internet has become in our everyday lives. The decision...
