Questions tagged [fair-use]
An exception to the limitations that can be imposed by a copyright owner. A similar concept in the U.K. and other commonwealth jurisdictions is called "fair dealing."
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Legality of short clips cut from famous movies to fit a new soundtrack
Bob has written a short piece of music and realized that it brilliantly fits certain sequences from a certain famous, copyrighted movie. He cuts essentially a music video from those sequences which ...
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Golden Eagle Insignia [duplicate]
Can I use this Golden Eagle in a Non-Commercial Game or this is a prohibited with the Golden Eagle Insignia
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Can I use whole poems from classic writers in my book?
I'm writing a non technical book and would like to add a poem in one of my chapters to emphasize an idea. Any work published before 1924 should be safe to use, but since copyright law is just full of ...
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Great Seal of The United States Non-Commercial
Is okay to use the Great Seal of The United States for Non-Commercial use?
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What is the equivalent to "fair use" in Europe?
I'm preparing to publish an open source library.
In order to research local law, I wanted to know if there is an equivalent term for the USA "fair use" in European law?
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What constitutes "fair use" when using or modifying a CAD, architectural drawing
I'm planning, and doing a write-up for a low voltage systems installation instructions for a new building in California (in case that's relevant ). I was given CAD drawing by the building owner, so I ...
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posted an edited copyrighted document for internal use at a small hospital
I work at a rural hospital in the US that is currently dealing with the Coronavirus pandemic. I work in IT, and am keeping up the intranet for internal staff. For reference, I have been asked to post ...
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Questions about teaching an online course about a copyrighted game
I’m trying to put together a Udemy class about playing (winning ; )) a Zynga game (Words With Friends). I know that there are people who have written e-books about the same, but I want to make sure I’...
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Fair use in (PowerPoint) presentations
Any search engine has an image search service.
Typically they make profits (with ads) offering images, they do not own and, since it is unlikely that images are in the public domain, they use ...
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CanI use the figures in research papers or books for YouTube videos under fair use?
I am in Europe. Can I use the images of research papers or books to make an educational YouTube video under fair use? The videos will be monetized and I might have sponsors or receive money by Patreon....
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When does a fan game fall under parody?
Apparently there was a case in 2013 where the fan game My Little Pony: Fighting is Magic got taken down by Hasbro.
This makes me wonder, why did it not fall under fair use in terms of Parody?
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Is creating commercial study guide materials for a trademarked exam considered fair use / illegal?
Provided that no text or diagrams are directly used, is creating commercial study materials considered against fair use / illegal? Given the amount of study guides available for various trademarked ...
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Am I allowed to reproduce work published on a website for free which bears an "all rights reserved" tag?
I'm aware of this answer Quoting from a book with "All rights reserved". Fair use? but my case is slightly different, so I will ask another question.
There is a website which contains ...
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What is the practical difference between "fair use" and "fair dealing" in Copyright law?
In the united-states, fair-use is a defence to copyright infringement.
In other jurisdictions, particularly members or ex-members of the British Commonwealth such as united-kingdom and australia ...
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Am I Infringing copyright by posting a bunch of (verbatim) quotes from books?
I run a self-improvement oriented community. I continuously read books, some of them quite famous, and provide a summary along with textual quotations from each of the books reviewed.
Now here's the ...
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Do XYZ and MEAT Partners have any legal standing to stop their names from being used? [closed]
Below is similar language to a note my team is preparing to send out to clients, announcing a recent transaction. Everything is factual. While XYZ and/or MEAT have asked us not to use their logo (and ...
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Which U.S. law forbids unlicensed diff files for a copyrighted work?
I know the topic is difficult. But - being a programmer and no lawyer - I want to understand it as best as I can. And it would be good to know the legal issue here for all types of works, not just ...
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Using images from the web in a survey
I am making a survey about beverage ingredients, and to give examples in the survey it'd be easy to use images from blog posts/websites or websites of companies that make these beverages. From this ...
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Is it legal to duplicate illegally distributed materials, if being used for fair use purposes?
Suppose I wish to use copyrighted printed materials under fair use, and let's assume for the sake of argument that it is completely obvious that my usage correctly falls under fair use guidelines.
As ...
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Under what circumstances does referencing a copyrighted fictional work in an unrelated commercial educational product constitute fair use?
Question. Under what circumstances does referencing a copyrighted fictional work in an unrelated commercial educational product constitute fair use?
For example, suppose the copyrighted work is Star ...
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Fair use of licenced music snippets in a commercial, educational product
I have a commercial product that teaches music theory using a series of short videos. In an upcoming video, I'd like to give examples of particular theory concepts using several short snippets of ...
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Is D&D homebrew necessarily a derivative work of the SRD?
Wizards of the Coast, makers of Dungeons & Dragons, fifth edition, has made a subset of the game's core rules (known as the System Reference Document or SRD) freely available under the copyleft-...
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Can I use screenshot of a TV show on slides of a talk?
I have been invited to give a TEDx talk quite soon and the topic of the talk is really close to an episode of Black Mirror. I'd therefore like to use some images of the show in my talk. Other movies ...
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Is using a photo reference for pose fair use?
If I draw an imaginary character and use a photograph as reference for human body/pose, is that legal, copyright-wise? Let's say I change the hair and the face? I know it needs to be 80% different, ...
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D&D Monsters and Copyright
We are making a college board game, and would like to know if we can use a few monsters from dnd to make our game. We don't use the same name as you do, just the images from online and the books.
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Fair Use of Photos as a Derivative Work
This question comes specifically from a particular example. Within Ethics for the Information Age (Quinn), 5th Edition, there is a chapter on Intellectual Property, and while most of it is well-...
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Is reposting a video from youtube on vimeo for purposes of criticism and commentary fair use?
The reason for reposting would be to not give exposure to someone getting 'famous' for problematic behavior that is likely causing injury to others and certainly endangering lives.
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Can I use a trademarked name in a project, if I don't own the trademark?
I'm currently making a game, based on Pokémon.
I do not own the trademark, copyright, or anything legally related to Pokémon (just some rando on the net).
In my code, I use Pokemon to describe a ...
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Using a public domain opera, recorded by someone else, in a parody
I found a YouTube video of a public domain opera, and I want to use the sound portion in a musical parody. I will only use parts of it, alter it dramatically, and wish to claim "Fair Use." Is it ...
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Using someone else's registered trademark
This seems like a very textbook and common question, but I can't find it anywhere. Here's an example of the situation:
A card game called Cards Against Humanity sometimes uses other company's names ...
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Are names used within a TV show (for example, the name of a fictional business) automatically copyrighted?
According to the personal account of one of the founders of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co, he waited hours outside the gates of Paramount Studios to license the name "Bubba Gump Shrimp" (which first ...
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Does printing several journal articles for a friend run afoul of copyright law?
I am a graduate student. For a fellow graduate student's upcoming birthday, I wanted to give him a collection of seminal papers in his field. The idea was to print a collection of 10 papers, totaling ...
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Quoting from a book with "All rights reserved". Fair use?
Is it considered "fair use/fair dealing" to quote a short sentence or two from a book who's copyright statement mentions only "All rights reserved"?
I'm writing a book and explaining some concept. To ...
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How far does parody go in copyright laws in Canada?
I'm wondering how far does parody go in Canadian copyright act? Is copying someone else's open source code and modifying it then protecting it considered as infringement? The code is from a ...
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Using short quotes from published, well-known literary works in a product [duplicate]
In order to create and sell a card game with each card having a short (25-50 words) quote from a book, is a licensing agreement needed or is this fair use? Assume the books are recent enough to be ...
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Patent application: can the citation of a figure from another author be considered fair use?
I would like to include a figure from a scientific paper which illustrates some background for my invention. I can cite the source and I can make it clear that I'm using it for illustration and ...
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On the legality of using artwork as 'character references' for a roleplay site
I'm planning on doing a bit of a web app project, but worried that it may be in a legal gray area and looking for some clarification and perhaps warnings on what not to do. The project outline is more ...
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Copyright related issue on publishing a technical book?
I am preparing to publish a technical book on programming that contains figures and charts (like, compiler, linker, ASCII table, keywords list) created by myself by taking references from many sources....
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Parody or Infringement? (United States of America)
I am struggling with the difference between these definitions.
Q: Is this a Parody or a Copyright Infringement?
In a proposed pilot for a TV/Web show aimed at children for edutainment, one of the ...
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Using quotes in a text you publish under creative commons
Fair use allows quoting other texts (or images) as part of your text, but how does this interact with you publishing the work under a creative commons license that allows derivatives.
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Legality of putting ads on an academic studying tool that contains user-generated content?
I made a web app that helps users generate interactive study notes, which facilitates their studying. The nature of this kind of user-generated content is that it will inevitably contain copyrighted ...
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Is using Twitch-broadcasts solely for research fair use?
For my bachelor thesis, I need to download ~10Tb of data from Twitch via Twitchleecher. I would like to use it for Deep-learning (emotion recognition), which means processing the data and deleting it ...
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Fair use of hardware/software configuration data
I’ve searched through the questions/answers here and after reading several, I’m still confused about this situation.
Wile E. Coyote has purchased the latest and greatest Road Runner Acquisition and ...
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Proportion of copyrighted material that can be distributed without infringement
Is there a threshold or a descriptive proportion that is considered not copyright infringement but merely creative and educational use when distributing some copyright protected material along with ...
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Re-using a small part of an artwork in a logo design
The artwork La Gerbe by Matisse was created in 1953. It consists of about 30 fern-like shapes on a white background. I am making a logo for a non-commercial academic website and it was suggested to me ...
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Can I use a model trained off of CC BY-NC 4.0 datasets, amongst others, in a commercial setting
The original data cannot be reproduced or tied to the model.
The data is simply used for training purposes.
The model is trained off of other data sets also.
Is it fair to use the model for other ...
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Would a booklet of music and film quotes infringe on copyright?
I am considering creating a booklet with quotes from pop media for commercial use. Something like a list of one-liners from songs from the 80s for example or movies.
Would this be legal? I am aware ...
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Single Frame from a 1973 Movie [closed]
I want to use a single frame from a movie made in 1973 in an email marketing piece. The thing being sold is software used in law schools and is not entertainment. It's use is to compare the 1973 ...
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Using recorded music for a light show
I'm in a band and we have a concert coming up. We play our own music, and even though we include some covers in our performances, I'm aware of venue blanket licenses and that I should not worry about ...
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Usage of song snippets in a prototype app
For a project at university I design and implement an android application. In this application, I would like to present the user snippets of famous songs which they should then recognize. The ...
