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The Act gives four factors to be considered to determine whether a particular use is a fair use: the purpose and character of the use (commercial or educational, trans-formative or reproductive, political); the nature of the copyrighted work (fictional or factual, the degree of creativity); the amount and substantiality of the portion of the ...
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.
Case Citation Year Vote Classification Subject Matter Opinions Statute Interpreted Summary; Bleistein v. Donaldson Lithographing Company: 188 U.S. 239: 1903: 7–2: Substantive
Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works by ...
The defendant argued that the papers were not copyrightable because, as the letters of a deceased author, they were not private property and not "proper subjects of copyright"; that even if copyrightable, as works of the President they belonged to the United States; and lastly, that their use was fair, because it was the creation of an ...
This act extended the original copyright term from 14 years to 28 years (with an option to renew), and changed the copyright formality requirements. [ citation needed ] In 1834, the Supreme Court ruled in Wheaton v.
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The Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse in Manhattan, where the case was tried and heard on appeal. The parties stipulated that the fair-use question would be contested on eight pieces—four articles, two notes, and two letters to the editor—from the Journal of Catalysis, published at the time by Academic Press (now part of Elsevier).