Southern District of Georgia: Plaintiff, Gulfstream, leases its copyrighted manual to its customers. Defendant borrows customer’s copy to provide maintenance service, and in so doing copies portions of plaintiff’s manual. Fair use.
Prof Patry discussion here.
Google’s Commemorative Logos
Google modifies its logos to honor holidays or famous individuals. Last week it created a logo that alludes to (but, Google alleges, did not copy), Joan Miro’s work, in honor of Miro’s brithday. The Miro estate complained, and Google, without admitting wrong-doing, pulled the logo by noon.
Some reaction was, in effect, gimme
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Perfect 10 Obtains Injunction Against Google’s Use of Thumbnail Images
Perfect 10 v. Google, 04-9484 (C.D. Cal Feb 17, 2006). via News.com.
Initial reaction from two different leading Internet figures: wow.
The holding turns on the fair use analysis of Google’s display of thumbnail images (the Court held that Google neither displayed nor distributed full size images, as it utilizes inline linking to, and
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Patry on AFP v. Google Fair Use Case
World Newspaper Org Wants Cut
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Discussion by Saatchi Gallery here.
‘Free Expression In The Age Of Copyright Control’
The Free Expression Policy Project of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School Of Law has released a report ‘Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control.‘