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Faith-Based Fair Dealing: Beware, New Exceptions Ahead (?)

Kluwer Copyright Blog

For the last few months, I have been wondering if our belief in “fair dealing” (or broadly, “limitations and exceptions”) has silently slipped into our “faith” in it – a faith that demands complete surrender to it while blinding us to the harm it covertly causes to the public domain. What Fuels Faith in the First Place?

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U.S. Copyright Office Finds ‘Deep Disagreement’ on Anti-Piracy Measures

TorrentFreak

Most parties agree that it’s impossible to design an error-free takedown process but disagree on what error rate is acceptable when takedowns are automated. Opponents of filtering technology warn that fair use and First Amendment rights are at stake. Tweaking the DMCA.

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No, the Federal Circuit Did Not Just Kill Off Software Copyrights – Knock It Off

IP Intelligence

Presumably afraid that a decision one way or the other would move financial markets and have unforeseen consequences, the Court assumed the declaring code was protected by copyright and decided the case on fair use. A fair use of declaring code might not be a fair use of implementing code. Chief Judge J.

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No, the Federal Circuit Did Not Just Kill Off Software Copyrights – Knock It Off

LexBlog IP

Presumably afraid that a decision one way or the other would move financial markets and have unforeseen consequences, the Court assumed the declaring code was protected by copyright and decided the case on fair use. ” A fair use of declaring code might not be a fair use of implementing code.

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The Much-Adapted “Peter Pan” (1904 – Forever )

Velocity of Content

Their reuse of the underlying materials may (in theory) be excused under the doctrine of fair use, including parody , or what is increasingly referred to as ‘ transformative use’ – a concept itself derived from the four fair use factors called out in Title 17 (Section 107).

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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. RT: Designing for abuse is a great idea and not something that 512 and 1201 did.

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WIPIP 2022, Session 6 (TM)

43(B)log

While Rogers rejected any consideration of whether the speaker had adequate alternatives to using the plaintiff’s trademark because speakers are entitled to choose their own ways of speaking, the religious cases embrace the concept of adequate alternatives. Mazzuco: a linedrawing problem does exist. What to do next?