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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. Wikimedia Foundation, Jacob Rogers: DMCA compliance lead for 7 years. Careful justifications/written record when we make those exceptions.

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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The majority says that limiting doctrines account for Kagan’s examples—which involved use of expression—as well as the dissent’s own copying and the Court’s too. Taken copyright-protected material and transformed it into public domain material—dangerous for law firms. The input was copyrightable; the output is not.