A group of prominent conservatives including Steve Bannon are urging the Trump administration to reject an increasingly ...

On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its 43-page majority opinion in the case of Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, No. 21-869, 598 U.S. __ (May 18, 2023) (slip ...

"Fair use," originally a judge-made doctrine, is a statutory defense to copyright infringement. The test for "fair use," articulated in Section 107 of the Copyright ...

Your article about the code developed to help educators understand their fair-use rights when using copyrighted materials for teaching media literacy (“Panel Issues ...

Last Thursday, May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 7-2 decision that the Andy Warhol Foundation's ("AWF") use of Lynn Goldsmith's photograph of the musician Prince in the commercial ...

Traditionally, copyright rights were zealously enforced, as evidenced by the fact that copyright infringement is a strict liability tort (intent is not relevant to copyright infringement liability).

When is art inspired by other art, and when is it simply derivative of the original work? That is the question the U.S. Supreme Court will try to answer in a case involving a series of Andy Warhol ...

“The fair-use defense has traditionally been viewed as a fact-bound issue. However, the opinions in Cariou and Warhol reflect a trend to determine fair use as a matter of law.” “Fair Use” is a ...

In February HBO released “Allen v. Farrow,” a four-part docuseries that examined the events that led up to Dylan Farrow’s sexual abuse allegations against her father, Woody Allen. That same month ...

LAS VEGAS — A bill that would extend “fair-use” protections of digital content to U.S. copyright law and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA ...

Newly-returned from three days at the Harry Potter fair use trial, a veritable crash course in fair use, the Law Blog was interested this morning to read that the producers of an upcoming movie -- ...