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Police Photo: Public Domain or Fair Use?

Dear Rich IP Blog

There are no privacy issues - no vehicle/person/property is identifiable. May I use it? Is it public domain or fair use? Public domain? Other states like Virginia, New York, and Massachusetts (called "open copyright" states) have a policy that makes state documents presumptively public domain.

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Copyright Fair Use for Education

IP and Legal Filings

Fair use provides some exceptions to copyright protection, allowing limited use of copyrighted material without the permission of the copyright owner. Understanding legal and fair use is especially important in academic settings because dissemination of information often requires the use of evidence.

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Taking the Mona Lisa Effect from Illusion to Reality: Enhancing the Museum Experience with Augmented and Virtual Reality

JIPEL Copyright Blog

addition of written or pictorial elements) of a work not in the public domain and/or where the creator is still alive. The legal concerns aside, the use of AR and VR in museums arguably benefits the public. For the most part, liability may be avoidable: museums could defend any copyright (e.g.,

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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

43(B)log

Designed to be freely available licensed or public domain; we occasionally use fair use images where no free image is available, such as when a famous work has been destroyed. So the tradeoff is not just are you big enough to justify using these measures but also these measures have serious costs to creators.

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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.

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Taking IP “Rights” Too Seriously – A Look Through History

SpicyIP

Hamar Television , regarded Section 52 of the Copyright Act, 1957 as a ‘right’ i.e. “right to make fair use or to deal fairly”, stemming from the fundamental right to free speech. But since such a positive duty would intrude into the other interests of copyright holders or/and authors such as privacy, trade, speech, etc.,

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Canada’s Changing AI-Copyright Policy Discourse: A Play in Three Parts?

Kluwer Copyright Blog

Nowhere in this so-called balance was any mention made of the public side of the copyright balance—the public’s interest in the creation and dissemination of works, for example, or users’ rights to make fair and lawful uses of protected works, or the importance of the public domain (in which facts and information—i.e.