Fair use is a concept in US copyright law that was created to balance the exclusive rights of copyright owners and the needs of everyday users of copyrighted material. Fair use of copyrighted works, ...

Training AI on books Anthropic bought is okay, but downloading pirated ones is not, judge says.

The Copyright Act generally protects the author or owner of a work’s exclusive right to publish, distribute or perform the work. This general protection is subject ...

Documentary filmmakers who use unlicensed video clips can breathe a little easier, after an appellate panel reversed itself ...

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.

This is the first time a judge found that an AI company's use of copyrighted material is fair use. Katelyn is a reporter with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots, image and video ...

Fair Use is legal code written into the United States law to provide a balance (under certain conditions) to a copyright holders exclusive rights. It is based upon a four-factor analysis of a proposed ...

In the context of trademarks, “fair use” is the term given to the use of someone else’s trademark in a way that will not subject the user to liability for infringing the owner’s rights. Fair use is a ...

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On November 12, 2015, the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University Washington College of Law hosted the Fourth Peter A. Jaszi Distinguished Lecture on ...

Is the Asian News International news agency “extorting” YouTubers who use a few seconds of its content in their videos? Or are YouTubers guilty of “stealing” from ANI by using its content without ...

Academics potentially enjoy some of the greatest benefits of U.S. copyright law’s doctrine of fair use — which lets them use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some ...