1. Dr. Suess vs. ComicMix, LLC (Oh, the places you will boldly go). Dr. Suess/Star Trek mashup. Problems: Copied highly creative style, did not make parody (no critique commentary), trading off Dr.

A couple of weeks ago, the big four TV networks, Microsoft, MySpace, and a handful of user-generated video sites (but not YouTube) issued a manifesto of principles covering video content uploaded by ...

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the rights holders. However, whether a specific use qualifies as fair use depends on several ...

Near the start of How to Fix Copyright, William Patry discloses that he is the chief copyright lawyer at Google. He insists that his book represents his personal ...

According to an article over on Ars Technica, today is the 3rd annual Fair Use Day. On the project website for the event, advocates celebrated EMI's dropping of DRM from its digital music sales and ...

In an important decision delineating the boundaries of fair use of another person’s trademark, the Second Circuit announced a standard by which nominative fair use of a trademark will be evaluated in ...

Access to diverse kinds of materials is vital for building and fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs). These materials could include those that are available in the public domain (for example, works ...

First, federal judge Pierre Leval published “Towards a Fair Use Standard”in a leading law review. It argued that a use’s transformative nature was the most important factor in fair-use analysis.

Remember when the RIAA and the MPAA were randomly selecting people to sue? Make the mistake of downloading six songs or a movie that wasn’t available any other way, and they would sic the lawyers on ...

Writing articles and books is a great marketing technique. But what is fair when it comes to quoting the copyrighted works of others? There is a saying that the faculty members use at my university: ...