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JANUARY 29, 2024

Richard Prince has agreed to pay two photographers whose work he used in his art. Here's what it means for fair use moving forward. The post Richard Prince and the Future of Fair Use appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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APRIL 19, 2022

The court, in this case, rejected the test as well as Newsweek’s fair use arguments. The terms of the settlement have not been disclosed. The post 3 Count: Clubbed Penguin appeared first on Plagiarism Today. However, with the case being settled, it is unclear what, if any, impact that will have moving forward.

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OCTOBER 25, 2021

Next up today, Andy Maxwell at Torrentfreak writes that one of the Triller lawsuits has taken a turn as the defendant accuses Triller of refusing to honor a settlement agreement and operating in bad faith during the early parts of the disagreement. The post 3 Count: Nirvana’s Inferno appeared first on Plagiarism Today.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Fair Use: Since the questions at issue only make up a small portion of the textbooks at issue, Chegg may argue fair use. To make matters worse for Chegg, companies engaged in behavior seen as “unethical” by the courts, often struggle to make fair use arguments.

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MARCH 3, 2022

However, the lower court tossed the lawsuit, saying that the use was a fair use, and awarded the school some $10,266.37 Finally today, Blake Brittain at Reuters reports that Oracle and NEC have reached a settlement in their dispute over NEC’s use of Oracle’s database software.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

1: Google/Oracle Doesn’t Affect Warhol Fair-Use Ruling, 2nd Circ Says. Recently, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Google, granting a broader fair use exemption to computer code. In that case, they found that Warhol’s use of her photographs of Prince in an artistic piece was not a fair use.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

First off today, Joseph Menn at Reuters reports that, despite a recent settlement, Apple has appealed a lower court decision in its ongoing lawsuit against the security firm Corellium. However, a judge tossed the case, ruling that Corellium’s use was a fair use. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday.

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