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Reaction Videos Are Fair Use–Thiccc Boy v. Swindelles

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The court finds fair use. Purpose and Character of Use. Market Effect. The court summarizes: “Three of the four statutory factors weigh in Mr. Both aspects can have significant implications for fair use. 22, 2024) The post Reaction Videos Are Fair Use–Thiccc Boy v.

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Harpic v. Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use?

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Domex Advertisement: Product Disparagement or Nominative Fair Use? At this point, television actresses Divyanka Tripathi (Hindi version) and Revathy (Tamil version) explain that Domex uses fresh guard technology to combat toilet odour, something that the other brand can’t. Pragya Jain.

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The Doctrine of Fair Use in Copyright Law

Biswajit Sarkar Copyright Blog

The Doctrine of Fair Use is a concept that originates from the case of Folsom vs. Marsh. Justice Story observed in his judgement, when the courts of law decide on cases like this, they must look to the nature and objects of the selection mode, the quantity and value of material used. Percentage of Original Material Used.

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Publishers Cite Napster and AI Training Threats in Legal Battle with the Internet Archive

TorrentFreak

Publishers Respond to IA’s Appeal IA argued that its scanning-and-lending activities amount to fair use. They cited expert witnesses who concluded that there’s no financial harm and further argued that the service is substantially different from the ebook licensing market. A Napster Moment?

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Publishers Secure Widespread Support in Landmark Copyright Battle With Internet Archive

TorrentFreak

Internet Archive’s theory of fair use represents a threat just as grave.” ” According to the amici, there is nothing fair about IA’s digital library; instead, they see it as “unambiguous copyright infringement.” Thus, its actions are decidedly not protected by fair use,” their brief reads.

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Satirical Depiction in YouTube Video Gets Rough Treatment in Court

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

The video depicted its award as the well-known Emmy statuette with a coronavirus replacing the atom in the holder’s hands: The Television Academies, who own the IP rights to the statuette, targeted the video with a DMCA notice to YouTube, which YouTube honored. Copyright Infringement/Fair Use. ” Market Effect.

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Judge Rakoff: Embedding Social Media Content is a “Display” Under the Copyright Act

Technology & Marketing Law Blog

Sinclair owns a bunch of television stations. means to show a copy of it, either directly or by means of a film, slide, television image, or any other device or process or, in the case of a motion picture or other audiovisual work, to show individual images nonsequentially.”. Fair use : The court also grapples with fair use.