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Post: Misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

This blog post, Coming to You Soon from Beijing: Misuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
is from January 2022. This entire post is worth reading and this text might lead you to do just that.

A user’s posting of inspiring moments from the broadcast of a sporting event is a fair use under the four factors set forth in 17 U.S.C. § 107 of the Copyright Act. (1) A user’s post is noncommercial and transformative; while the broadcaster is broadcasting the event to document the event itself, the user is reposting an image or a short clip to express her response to the event, e.g., admiration of the athlete’s accomplishment. (2) The broadcast is nonfiction coverage of a live event, which favors fair use. (3) The clips are only a short segment of a much longer event, and (4) as such do not harm the market for the broadcast of the entire event.

Copyright holders may use automated methods to find and notify a user of Copyright infringement, but that does not mean that infringement occurred. Understand fair use for yourself and then be willing to use it!



This post first appeared on Digitization 101, please read the originial post: here

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