Remove Fair Use Remove Government Remove Licensing Remove Public Domain
article thumbnail

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

TorrentFreak

Opponents of filtering technology warn that fair use and First Amendment rights are at stake. As expected, many rightsholders are in favor of far-reaching, government-backed anti-piracy measures. Many copyright holders expressed their frustration with the current status quo and would like the Government to step in.

Copyright 127
article thumbnail

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. The defendants, Mister Maestro, Inc.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Can Intellectual Property Rights Safeguard Your Blog?

Kashishipr

However, the content must reflect an expression of something since ideas are not governed under copyright. You may sign-up for a Creative Common License where the issue lies in seeking acknowledgment of the work. Blogging and Fair Use.

article thumbnail

U.S. Supreme Court Vindicates Photographer But Destabilizes Fair Use — Andy Warhol Foundation v. Goldsmith (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Supreme Court affirmed the Second Circuit’s ruling that the reproduction of Andy Warhol’s Orange Prince on the cover of a magazine tribute was not a fair use of Lynn Goldsmith’s photo of the singer-songwriter Prince, on which the Warhol portrait was based. This has important implications for the doctrine of fair use.

article thumbnail

Nodal Officers: Unbalancing Expedience and Fairness

SpicyIP

He points out that the Act enables increased control of the government over intermediaries by allowing it to act against intermediaries who are found to host pirated content. Or can the government take suo moto action against suspected content? However, the Act leaves certain questions unanswered. 239 of this ). 239 of this ).

Copying 52
article thumbnail

Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

GitHub, Rose Coogan: More than 73 million creators—students, developers, startups, NGOs, governments using GitHub to collaborate on open source. Unique expertise on code too; code is different from photos, music, videos; some of the most valuable code on GitHub is licensed openly. under terms of relevant license.

article thumbnail

Should Copyright Preemption Moot Anti-Scraping TOS Terms? (Guest Blog Post)

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

And many of the sites where the data is collected also have prohibitions on automated data collection and web scraping in their terms of use. Platforms that copy online data and use it to create AI have a strong fair use argument under copyright laws. But fair use isn’t a defense to a breach of contract claim.