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Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. [13] This means that in litigation on copyright infringement, the defendant bears the burden of raising and proving that the use was fair and not an infringement. [30] [31] Thus, fair use need not even be raised as a defense unless the plaintiff first shows (or the defendant concedes) a prima facie case
The court said that in the case of copyright infringement, the province guaranteed to the copyright holder by copyright law – certain exclusive rights – is invaded, but no control, physical or otherwise, is taken over the copyright, nor is the copyright holder wholly deprived of using the copyrighted work or exercising the exclusive rights ...
Fair use is the use of limited amounts of copyrighted material in such a way as to not be an infringement. It is codified at 17 U.S.C. § 107, and states that "the fair use of a copyrighted work ... is not an infringement of copyright." The section lists four factors that must be assessed to determine whether a particular use is fair.
Additionally, the fair use defense to copyright infringement was codified for the first time in section 107 of the 1976 Act. Fair use was not a novel proposition in 1976, however, as federal courts had been using a common law form of the doctrine since the 1840s (an English version of fair use appeared much earlier). The Act codified this ...
Instead, every such use for research or study must be evaluated individually to determine whether it is fair, similar to the notion of fair use in U.S. copyright law. Among the criteria used to determine the fairness of a use are the purpose and character of the dealing, the nature of the work, the possibility of obtaining the work commercially ...
Such transformativeness weighs heavily in a fair use analysis and may excuse what seems a clear copyright infringement from liability. In United States patent law, the term also refers to the test set in In re Bilski: that a patent-eligible invention must "transform a particular article into a different state or thing".
If Defendant uses the mark as a trademark (i.e., a brand, product name, company name, etc.) or if Defendant uses the term in a suggestive manner, it is not descriptive fair use. Nominative fair use of a mark may also occur within the context of comparative advertising. [2] Under U.S. Supreme Court precedent, the fair use defense in trademark ...
Fair use defence to copyright infringement allows unauthorised use of copyrighted work in a reasonable manner under certain circumstances. The following are some of the facets that distinguish the misuse doctrine from fair use – Fair use is statutorily recognised in 17 USC § 107, whereas copyright misuse is yet to receive statutory support; and