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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Is it legal to record a video browsing a website and commenting on that?
I'd like to make a Youtube video, in which I make comments browsing a website. This would be for educational content. Can I do that without asking permission?
(I'm from Hungary, Europe.)
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Product names on commercial designs?
So, I am a graphic designer and I make a small amount of money selling funny custom t-shirts. These shirts have quick 1-liners which can be interpreted in a number of ways. My current design contains ...
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Can I write (and sell) a non-fiction technical book based on other(s) book(s)?
I have been reading and studying a lot of materials about learning. I'm interested in writing a book (in a language different than the original) explaining the same concepts in different ways.
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Does musical satire really require permission from the copyright holder?
I was reading this article on American art-rock/new-wave band Devo in The New Yorker and came across this claim that puzzles me:
It’s a little unclear why Warner, once they learned that Devo wanted ...
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Can I use logos from vendors in my open-source project?
I have an open-source project that is quite popular with dozens of downloads per day. I use logos from big companies in there (e.g. Cisco or Microsoft) to customize some web pages. The logos are ...
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Fair use: is legality of use determined separately from legality of source?
Youtube and other content sites have extensive resources (Youtube Fair Use Guidelines) that describe the conditions for fair-use. However, these do not contain adequate treatments of legal content ...
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Can I use real life brand names in a computer game?
I'm working on a computer game, where the player will be controlling a fictional country in the 1950s.
I want to make it possible for the player to purchase products with real life brand names. For ...
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Is it legal use parody products for commercial purposes?
I am future T-Shirt seller. I don't want to have problems with copyright for my designs. So I have made some research and learned that parody is fair use.
Can I sell below parody T-Shirts? (Parody ...
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Can I use the Olympic logo in a card within my board game?
I'm publishing a board game and one of my cards is called "The Olympics" and has the logo in pixel art (Photo link: https://ibb.co/f5yocQ). I know that the logo and the words "The Olympics" have had ...
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Music samples for market research surveys [closed]
Would using short clips (8-15 seconds) of songs embedded in online surveys for market research fall under fair use? If not, what type of music license would be required for this application?
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What is the upper boundary for using a copyrighted character under fair use? [closed]
It seems that it is often understood that copyrighted works can be used as parodies or satire. In some cases derivative works clearly match this definition, in others it can be difficult to tell. I ...
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What exactly would count as copyright infringement in a replication paper?
Cross posted from academia.SE link
I have been following the review process of a replication journal
In particular, it has an open review which can be seen.
On a particular submission they are ...
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Can I use a Disney character name as a nickname for one of my staff members in an interview video?
I am working as a graphic designer for a small team of researchers in a national research organization. One of our team members is affectionately called "Baymax" from the film "Big Hero Six".
I am ...
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Apple prohibited using an apple image?
Here are "Guidelines for Using Apple Trademarks and Copyrights" from Apple.
They say:
These guidelines are for Apple licensees, authorized resellers,
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What is the resulting status of a sculpture using CC BY-SA works?
I would like to create a sculpture, related to science and technology, using engraved diagrams of physical processes on the surface. Some of these diagrams I will produce myself, many are in the ...
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Would fair use apply to the usage of Pac-Man within a QR code?
I thought I was rather clever putting Pac-Man and the four ghosts within a QR code for my business card, but I started thinking about the inherently gray copyright laws that I admittedly know too ...
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Is a gif of a feature film, or a still of a video clip, always fair-use?
How far does the fair-use doctrine go?
For example, it seems like many popular feature films have become part of the GIF and internet meme culture, where GIFs of various episodes are posted on ...
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Use of trademark related domain with permission
I have a domain (and a website) that is closely related to the very very well known product. If that product was name Foo, my domain is foofaq.com and provides faq and news about Foo.
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Do I need copyright permission for a blog
I am thinking of creating a sports blog, and would like to know if you need permission from a team or the league to write this blog. For example if I am writing a article about the Philadelphia ...
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What is the "equitable rule of reason" in the fair use doctrine?
In Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios, Inc., 464 U.S. 417 (1984), the Court decided that Sony's manufacturing and selling of VTR's did not infringe the copyrights of Universal Studios and Walt ...
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Is downloading lecture notes legal?
It's really tiresome to ask each professor to use his slides for educational purposes as I have done here.
If a rights owner publishes a work online in a way that it is publicly accessible, but does ...
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Is Encrypted Intellectual Property still considered Intellectual Property?
TL;DR I posted a question yesterday; the answer to which gave me a new question:
Is Encrypted Intellectual Property still considered Intellectual Property in most (or, relevant) cases?
Here's some ...
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Am I allowed to open source my Dr. Seuss txt files on GitHub?
I've been working on building a Dr. Seuss dataset which provides training data for my recurrent neural network. The goal is to use machine learning to get the computer to generate Seuss-like works.
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Can I use modified version of Apple, Android, Windows, and Blackberry logos in commercial advertising to show compatibility?
I am making and commercially reproducing a script that would show textual advertisements based on a user's device.
I want to, beside the text, have an icon showing the device in order to show ...
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Build upon parts of CC BY-NC-SA 2.5 in a paid, educational content
I am reading some great articles licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.5.
On the License's site, I read that this means it's
Non Commercial: This means that I "may not use the material for commercial ...
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Is it legal to use movie frames or actor images as online avatars?
Browsing around social networks and this community, I see that there are users that use pictures of actors from TV series as their avatar.
I don't want to point to anyone's profile to give an ...
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How much can I quote from an academic book for my lecture notes?
I'm writing lecture notes for one of my exams, both as a process to learn the subject well and to be able to share it with other students later. The official lecture notes are just slides and are ...
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Fair Use Quoting Reviews in Videos
If I am making a video about a particular business, is it fair use to, within that video, quote a review or rating from Google or Yelp? i.e. Such and Such business has a 5 star rating from Jackie Joe ...
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Copyright, fair use, and "news" sites copying articles from each other
This question is about English-language "news" sites (i.e. sites that have articles about something new that has happened in e.g. science, technology, or some other area of interest) which I am ...
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Is using video games to train computer AI considered fair use?
Consider a scenario where I'm thinking of building an automated driving system for my own learning, I use driving simulation video games to aid a specific computer vision module as a test bench since ...
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Assuming fair use - where do I legally get video content?
This question is in relation to US law.
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I'm making a youtube video that will be commercialized. Assume it falls under fair use; it will contain small clips from several different movies but ...
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Is using a song in my outro considered fair use?
I'm working on a youtube channel where I want to post only educational material and in my outro I want to use a part of a copyrighted song since the song and the theme of my videos send the same ...
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Sharing sports video clips, is it Fair Use?
I own a little Instagram page related to football, and one question came to mind.
Let's say that I take a video showing a beautiful goal from a soccer game and share it to Instagram, Twitter, or any ...
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Does creating YouTube tutorials on how to solve questions from textbooks infringe copyright?
When the answer to a problem is not provided by the textbook (or even in the case that it is), would creating a YouTube or text-based tutorial on how to solve it infringe the copyright of the textbook ...
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Does the intent of justifiable fair use supersede the implication of unjustifiable intent?
The question Legal status of "no copyright infringement intended" has an answer that states in part,
Ultimately, I don't think such a notice does anything to aid the defendant's argument ...
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Is it legal for a company to require an extra software license for a backup?
I work for a company that has purchased a software license for software that is needed to make our company run smoothly. We'd like to create a backup of the server in case of hardware failure, however ...
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Personal copying of source code from a programming book
Many books on computer programming publish source code listings and example programs as part of the printed book to demonstrate some aspect of the language. When I'm learning from such books, I ...
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Google Map image use in public presentation
The IP statement supplied by Google Maps outlining permissible use of images of their maps is rather vague (to me at least) see link (https://www.google.com/permissions/geoguidelines.html).
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Is it legal to upload short, publicly available, source files on Stack Exchange to ask about them?
I once asked a question on tex.SE about a (LaTeX) title page template that my university provides for master's theses.
Since the people over at tex.SE require Minimal Working Examples, I uploaded a ...
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Legal Issues of publishing a book on software?
Not sure if this is the right place, but I'd like to know the process on how to publish a book on Software that I didn't produce. I can get the book printed, bound, and put on the market, but ...
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Fair use of Tweets
There are many personalities that use Twitter to promote themselves, and are active on the site.
If I sell a product that quotes or reproduces these tweets is it fair use? Let's assume that we are ...
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Can maps from Google Maps be used in school presentation?
I'm doing a presentation for a class in college. Am I allowed to include images of Google Maps? To clarify, I'm not using the actual photographs or street views of google maps, just the street names. ...
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Could it be considered fair-use to post a censored version of another YouTube video on YouTube?
Regardless of if it is legal to download the video from YouTube in the first place, could it be considered fair-use to upload the video with some parts of the video and audio censored (giving credit ...
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Is it legal for a company to make more than one copyright claim on the same content?
I have had a video copyright claimed by a company, which I then submitted a counterclaim for and had the video reinstated. Since then I have had numerous claims from the same company and have had to ...
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Length of movie clip for fair-use?
Is there some maximum length of a movie clip that can be publicly shared as "fair use?"
E.g., the Youtube channel Movieclips shows clips with an average length of 2:30.
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Is taking notes copyright infringement?
If I'm taking notes on a book I'm studying would I technically be infringing copyright if I didn't properly cite the source on the piece of paper the notes are on? I got curious because I was watching ...
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Can I use copyrighted media for strictly personal use?
I know copyright / author's rights definition. I read bunch of texts about them and I am also aware that, for example, there are a kind of tolerance on YouTube about uses of copyrighted media (ex: ...
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The Legality of Music Datamining
Let us assume that a hit song or two from a list of, say, 200 artists, is transcribed into a digital format which allowed for melody/harmony and other types of analysis. These analyses would produce a ...
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I am preparing The Lion King themed summer camp for young children, am I allowed to use The Lion King poster on my pamphlets?
This summer I am preparing a summer camp for children which is strongly inspired by The Lion King story line and I like the posters created for the movie.
Is it OK to use the posters as images on my ...
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In Oracle America v. Google, what was the District Court jury's rationale behind its "fair use" finding?
In the case of Oracle America v. Google, the District Court of Northern California ruled on whether or not Google's reimplementation of 37 Java APIs constituted fair use. My question is, how - in the ...
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