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Too Rusty For Krusty–Nickelodeon v. Rusty Krab Restaurant (Guest Blog Post)

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The Rusty Krab court expands upon these points in its subsequent section detailing findings of law, but its discussion is fairly conclusory, mainly comprising maxims about what a parody is and isn’t rather than specific discussion of the defendants’ use and why it fails to qualify.

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. Remediation not removal is often the goal—changes to the code rather than removing often resolves the problem, e.g. addressing violation of open source license by adding attribution etc.

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

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Michael Carroll (w/ Peter Jaszi), Fair Use After Google and Warhol Codification is a big deal; clarifies that fair use is a distinct doctrine, whereas well into 20th century courts were using it as noninfringement. Courts weren’t using four factors before that. We don’t even get into the market stuff.