Copyright guarantees rights to owner of a work, including commercial gain, but copyright works can be used under Fair Use. Fair Use, section 107 of the copyright law ...

The Copyright Act generally protects the author or owner of a work’s exclusive right to publish, distribute or perform the work. This general protection is subject ...

In 2025, three federal district court decisions began to sketch the boundaries of what counts as fair use in the context of AI training.

Computer & Communications Industry Association, Fair Use in the U.S. Economy: Economic Contribution of Industries Relying on Fair Use (CCIA: 2017), available online at ccianet.org. Executive Summary: ...

First, federal judge Pierre Leval published “Towards a Fair Use Standard”in a leading law review. It argued that a use’s transformative nature was the most important factor in fair-use analysis.

Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association ...

Fair Use is legal code written into the United States law to provide a balance (under certain conditions) to a copyright holders exclusive rights. It is based upon a four-factor analysis of a proposed ...

The proposed fair use provision is an opening of South Africa’s existing fair dealing right. Both fair use and fair dealing are general exceptions that apply a common test of what is “fair” to a host ...

Writing articles and books is a great marketing technique. But what is fair when it comes to quoting the copyrighted works of others? There is a saying that the faculty members use at my university: ...