On the occasion of the New York State Bar Association’s 150th anniversary, from Jan. 13 to Jan. 16, 2026, members present ...

Computer & Communications Industry Association, Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (CCIA: 2017), available online at ccianet.org. Executive Summary: ...

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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.

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 ...

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.

“Applying the fair use doctrine to generative AI presents novel and complex challenges that stretch the boundaries of traditional copyright analysis.” The advent of generative AI brings to the ...

Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association ...

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 ...

The proposed fair use provision is an opening of South Africa’s existing fair dealing right. Both fair use and fair dealing are general exceptions that apply a common test of what is “fair” to a host ...

Copyright laws apply to profit and nonprofit organizations. Although U.S. copyright law specifically cites a nonprofit educational purposes as a primary consideration ...