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Fair use analysis includes multiple factors, one of which is the "nature of the copyright work," and some courts find that factual works provide greater leeway for fair use than fictional works. [10] Nonfiction literary works, such as history books, newspaper articles, and biographies, are treated as factual works with similarly narrow ...
In Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc., [25] the Ninth Circuit again considered whether an image search engine's use of thumbnail was a fair use. Although the facts were somewhat closer than in the Arriba Soft case, the court nonetheless found the accused infringer's use fair because it was "highly transformative." The court explained:
Several newspapers sued the Internet forum Free Republic for allowing its users to repost the full text of copyrighted newspaper articles, asserting that this constituted copyright infringement. Free Republic claimed that they were not liable under the doctrine of fair use and the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech.
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 ...
OTTAWA (Reuters) -Five Canadian news media companies filed a legal action on Friday against ChatGPT owner OpenAI, accusing the artificial-intelligence company of regularly breaching copyright and ...
News agencies often supply news, video, and photography to news outlets for use in their works. In most cases, they don't get this content for free, these outlets have to license their content from them for fees, which is why you usually see copyright disclaimers often on Associated Press reports syndicated onto other sites.
For the first factor of fair use, purpose and character of use, the court stated that Caribbean International News Corp. use inform and "gain commercially," and that the two purposes offset each other in the fair use analysis. The photographs were used for commercial use to prompt readers to purchase the newspaper.
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.