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  2. Fair use - Wikipedia

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    We conclude that because 17 U.S.C. § 107 created a type of non-infringing use, fair use is "authorized by the law" and a copyright holder must consider the existence of fair use before sending a takedown notification under § 512(c)." In June 2011, Judge Philip Pro of the District of Nevada ruled in Righthaven v.

  3. Copyright Act of 1976 - Wikipedia

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    If no notice of copyright was affixed to a work and the work was, in fact, "published" in a legal sense, the 1909 Act provided no copyright protection and the work became part of the public domain. Under the 1976 Act, however, section 102 says that copyright protection extends to original works that are fixed in a tangible medium of expression ...

  4. Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright - Wikipedia

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    Under US copyright law, the primary things to consider when asking if something is fair use (set forth in Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107) are: [11] The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; The nature of the copyrighted work;

  5. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Legal issues with fan fiction - Wikipedia

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    OTW's position is that fan fiction and other fan labor products constitute copyright fair use under 17 U.S.C. § 107 because they add "new meaning and messages to the original" work, [37] and thus fall under the exemption to U.S. copyright law the Supreme Court defined in Campbell [38] and which was later revisited and followed in Suntrust. [39]

  7. Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. - Wikipedia

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    The Supreme Court held that 2 Live Crew's commercial parody may be a fair use within the meaning of § 107. Justice Souter began by describing the inherent tension created by the need to simultaneously protect copyrighted material and allow others to build upon it, quoting Lord Ellenborough: "While I shall think myself bound to secure every man in the enjoyment of his copyright, one must not ...

  8. FAIR USE Act - Wikipedia

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    Section (II) allows specifically for circumvention via hardware or software that skips objectionable content. [10]Circumvention for the purposes of avoiding objectionable content became an issue in 2006, when a Denver judge ruled that the edited versions of films sold by companies such as CleanFlicks and CleanFilms were not considered fair use. [15]

  9. Copyright notice - Wikipedia

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    The copyright notice must also contain the year in which the work was first published (or created), and the name of the copyright owner, which may be the author (including the legal author/owner of a work made for hire), one or more joint authors, or the person or entity to whom the copyright has been transferred.