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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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The Copyright Legacy of Martin Luther King

Copyright Lately

and 20th Century-Fox Records argued that, because King had distributed advance copies of the speech to the press without restricting them from reproducing or distributing it further (and without the copyright notice required under copyright law at the time), the speech was in the public domain.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

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. Given all this, the idea of using technical measures to prescreen content is foolish and counterproductive.

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The United States Copyright Office Notice of Inquiry on AI: A Quick Take

Velocity of Content

Does the increasing use or distribution of AI-generated material raise any unique issues for your sector or industry as compared to other copyright stakeholders? AI generated materials may both advance text publishing and hinder it. It is also useful for primary research that may result in the creation of new content.

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A Preliminary Analysis of Trump’s Copyright Lawsuit Over Interview Recordings (Trump v. Simon & Schuster) (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Two weeks ago, former President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against journalist Bob Woodward and his publisher, Simon & Schuster (and its parent company Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom-CBS), in U.S. The audiobook is also published on CD, and transcripts were published in paperback and ebook formats.)

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