Fair Use Licensing Public Domain Publishing 
Dear Rich IP Blog
JANUARY 9, 2023
Dear Rich: I want to use a police plane crash accident photo in my book. It was released to the press and has been published in many news outlets attributed to the department. May I use it? Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain?
Kluwer Copyright Blog
JUNE 30, 2021
Chapman (‘plaintiffs’) collectively filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Netflix, Amazon, and Apple (‘defendants’), claiming that the defendants had directly and indirectly infringed their copyright over the song “ Fish Sticks n’ Tater Tots ” by using it in their documentary titled ‘Burlesque’ ( Brown v. Netflix , Inc. ).
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Plagiarism Today
MAY 16, 2022
The case looked at whether You Raise Me Up was similar to a 1977 Icelandic song Söknuður , which is owned by Johannsongs-Publishing, Ltd. According to the judge, Vape is a fair use as its goal is to be a parody of the source material and not meant to replace it in the marketplace.
Technology & Marketing Law Blog
JANUARY 25, 2023
Here’s an example of a subject photo from his complaint (which, based on this ruling, I’m now confident he can’t sue me for; plus fair use), with some pretty obvious photography flaws: His copyright claims raise a simple but troubling question: who owns the photos taken with his camera?
Copyright Lately
AUGUST 2, 2022
And unlike the vast majority of songwriters and performing artists who have relinquished ownership rights to musical publishers and record labels, Barlow & Bear decided to release “The Unofficial Bridgerton Musical” themselves, which means keeping more of the earnings. Was it a license on the world’s greatest terms?
Copyright Lately
JANUARY 13, 2023
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.
Velocity of Content
JUNE 8, 2022
The novel, however, was published before text of the play. Peter Pan, or The Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up” (1904 stage play, including occasional revisions through 1928, when the script of the play is published). And the 1911 content reused in these works may actually be in the public domain already. And yes, I verbed a noun.
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