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When is it Fair Use to Use a Photo to “Illustrate” an Article?

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

One of the practices that has generated a sizeable number of disputes and rulings is the use of photos to illustrate articles. These three cases address fair use in this context. McGucken moved for summary judgment on the fair use defense. The second factor weighs slightly against fair use.

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My “Summer” 2022 Activities

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

I posted a chapter from the book: Online Contracts. The Constitutionality of Mandating Editorial Transparency , 73 Hastings Law Journal 1203 (2022). How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research , Association of Research Libraries blog, Feb. Regulation of Housing Advertising (2022 Edition). Blog Posts.

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What if? Discussing the Elsevier Ltd. And Ors v Alexandra Elbakyan and Ors in the Multiverse of Substantive Copyright Arguments

SpicyIP

In the absence of this economic aspect of the agreement it was void under Section 23 and 25 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872 and Section 16 and 19 of the Copyright Act, 1957. For instance, the Plaintiff No.1’s For articles published under the subscription model, the authors typically transfer copyright to Elsevier.”

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GitHub is Sued, and We May Learn Something About Creative Commons Licensing

Velocity of Content

I have had people tell me with doctrinal certainty that Creative Commons licenses allow text and data mining, and insofar as license terms are observed, I agree. Full disclosure: CCC offers RightFind XML, a service that supports licensed commercial access to full-text articles for TDM with value-added capabilities.) GitHub Inc.,

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UK Law and Artificial Intelligence

Velocity of Content

On the other hand, it clearly distinguishes those with an economic copyright interest from those without one while setting forth two clear paths for reuse: licensing for the former, copyright exception for the latter. The options ranged from no change to UK law, to improving the licensing environment, to offering new copyright exceptions.

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Examples of Text and Data Mining Research Using Copyrighted Materials

Kluwer Copyright Blog

These examples help illustrate the broad public benefits that can accrue from harmonizing copyright exceptions for research uses in the digital environment. Speeding literature review One of the most common uses of TDM is to help scholars find, read, and analyze information in academic journals and other sources. 3d 87 (2d Cir.

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Transatlantic Dialogue Workshop, Institute for Information Law (IViR), Amsterdam Law School Part 4: Industry Impact and Industry Relationships

43(B)log

Netflix isn’t covered by the DSA at all—licensed content provided by the producer. And requiring licensing from YT providers, including individual users, blurs this further. YT agreed not to consider fair use in content takedowns from a major movie studio—a concession that affected other users.

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