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Copyright Office Technical Measures Consultations

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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. Rogers: Note there are less scrupulous organizations that use content ID tools to harass people making appropriate lawful uses.

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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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Cariou is still arguably good law w/the exception of the relevance of artist’s intent. Taken copyright-protected material and transformed it into public domain material—dangerous for law firms. Court chose to rule quite narrowly in part b/c of concessions during litigation. The input was copyrightable; the output is not.