Tag: Fair Use

Blink 182 Has Fun With YouTube Copyright Infringement
Fair use is an issue that will not have much resolution going forward. Users want to have some creative control over songs they own, and the governing bodies that by have a much m...
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Demand Media Threatens “Demand Studios Sucks” with Legal Action
A blog and forum site called DemandStudiosSucks.com has been threatened with legal action by Demand Media, the company behind Demand Studios. The letter the site received has been...
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Another Righthaven Copyright Case Thrown Out, Only To Be Filed Again
Righthaven lost another copyright case, this time in Nevada. The "company" seems to be losing a lot lately, but this time, they have decided to refile the suit right after the case...
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Huffington Post Suspends Writer After Taking Too Much From an AdAge Story
Simon Dumenco at AdAge posted a story today about how the Huffington Post regurgitated one of hi...
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To Righthaven’s Dismay, Judge Rules Copying of Entire Article Fair Use
Righthaven was dealt another blow in court this week when a judge ruled that one of the defendants it was suing over copyright infringement had fairly reposted an entire article fr...
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Righthaven Complaint Dismissed in Key Case
Righthaven, the company often referred to as a "copyright troll," which has essentially made a business out of suing bloggers and media outlets over alleged copyright infringement,...
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Righthaven Files Suit Against Ars Technica Writer, Quickly Dismisses It
Eriq Gardner, a journalist who contributed this ar...
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Copying an Entire Article Without Permission – OK in Some Cases?
Last month, we asked whether full article-copying could be ruled as fair use. We...
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Righthaven Appeals Fair Use Ruling
Righthaven has reportedly appealed a court ruling from last fall, which deemed the use of 8 sentences of one of its clients' 30-sentence article "fair use". The ruling...
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Could Full Article-Copying Be Ruled as Fair Use?
We've written about Righthaven a couple times. This is a company with a business model based on suing publishers and bloggers on behalf of newspaper clients like the Las Vegas R...
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Testing the Fair Use Balance
Remember Righthaven? That's the company with the business model of suing bloggers over copyright that ignited one of the more recent fair use controversy debates. A...
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Fair Use Controversy: The Gift That Keeps On Giving
So the whole "what is fair use?" debate is back, as Fortune de...
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Court Ruling Raises Fair Use Questions Around DRM
Elecronista reports that a new court ruling could set a legal precede...
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What is Fair Use? You Tell Us.
What is fair use? It's a question that doesn't seem to go away. Traditional media publications often throw blogs under the bus for borrowing quotes and spreading news to their o...
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Are You Blogging Within Your Fair Use Rights?
With all of the struggles and controversies surrounding the news industry these days, there is a lot of confusion out there about what falls under fair use and what doesn't. The...
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