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August 3, 2018

What We Talk About When We Talk About Fair Use

What does a fair use trial take? Sometimes, a whole lot of grit. Credit: The New York Public Library, New York. The New York Public Library Digital Collections https://digitalcollections.nypl.org Every conversation I have with clients about fair use is really a conversation about their tolerance for risk. Instead of a definitive set of black and white […]

Filed Under: Copyright, Fair Use, Licensing, Uncategorized Tagged With: Copyright, Copyright Act, Copyright Infringement, Fair Use, licensing

June 14, 2017

Drake Wins Copyright Infringement Suit Over “Pound Cake/Paris Morton Music 2” Sample

Copyright Office Changes Rules

  By: Shantell Jiggetts Intern from Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Last month, Rapper Drake and his record label, Cash Money Records, Inc., received a favorable decision in a copyright infringement suit filed against them in 2014 by the estate of deceased jazz musician, Jimmy Smith. The suit focused on the sampling of […]

Filed Under: Copyright, Elements of Copyright Infringement, Exclusive Rights, Fair Use, Litigation Tagged With: Copyright, Copyright Infringement, Drake, Fair Use, Jimmy Smith, Paris Morton Music 2, Pound Cake, The Jimmy Smith Rap, transformative use

April 6, 2016

What You Should Know About Fair Use

by Nikki Leung, Emory Law Class of 2016 For as long as a copyright is valid, only the copyright owner and those authorized by the copyright owner may reproduce, distribute, perform, display, broadcast, or create a derivative work based on the protected work.[1] Granting those exclusive rights to creators, at least in theory, also serves […]

Filed Under: Copyright, Exclusive Rights, Fair Use Tagged With: Copyright, Fair Use, parody, the exclusive rights, transformative use

March 3, 2016

What You Should Know About Digital Millennium Copyright Act Takedowns

by Nikki Leung, Emory Law Class of 2016 For some content creators, the digital era is a dream come true. The low-to-non-existent cost of publishing and distributing content means that virtually anyone can create and then monetize their work. But, the increasingly digital nature of our media consumption comes with a darker side. As the […]

Filed Under: Copyright, Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Fair Use Tagged With: Copyright, Copyright Infringement, counternotice, digital millennium copyright act, DMCA, Fair Use, notice and takedown

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