In 2025, three federal district court decisions began to sketch the boundaries of what counts as fair use in the context of ...
Copyright guarantees rights to owner of a work, including commercial gain, but copyright works can be used under Fair Use. Fair Use, section 107 of the copyright law ...
First, federal judge Pierre Leval published “Towards a Fair Use Standard”in a leading law review. It argued that a use’s transformative nature was the most important factor in fair-use analysis.
The Copyright Act generally protects the author or owner of a work’s exclusive right to publish, distribute or perform the work. This general protection is subject ...
Computer & Communications Industry Association, Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (CCIA: 2017), available online at ccianet.org. Executive Summary: ...
Copyright laws apply to profit and nonprofit organizations. Although U.S. copyright law specifically cites a nonprofit educational purposes as a primary consideration ...
Fair Use is legal code written into the United States law to provide a balance (under certain conditions) to a copyright holders exclusive rights. It is based upon a four-factor analysis of a proposed ...
On November 12, 2015, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University Washington College of Law hosted the Fourth Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on ...
Writing articles and books is a great marketing technique. But what is fair when it comes to quoting the copyrighted works of others? There is a saying that the faculty members use at my university: ...