What would be the rules involved in using images in banners/manips? I know that unless you took the image yourself, it's copyright to somone else, but could any random image still legally be used if no profit is being made on the manip? Do most people just use stock images?

 Hello, I'm new and I have an issue/question. Recently an author deleted their fic from LJ and FF.net by deleting their accounts. The author cannot be reached. I've saved said fic as a PDF and don't know if I can distribute it ( Read more... )

Nathaniel T. Noda, When Holding On Means Letting Go: Why Fair Use Should Extend to Fan-Based Activities, 5 U. Denver Sports & Ent. L.J. (2008) (note that you may need to log in as "guest" to read it).

The full bibliography is here.

What to do if you get a C&D letter
First off, walk - don’t run - to The Fair Use Network and Chilling Effects websites. They both go into greater detail about what to do and how to evaluate the missive that has landed on your doorstep.

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FindLaw columnist Julie Hilden has posted her thoughts on Warner Bros Entertainment Inc et al v. RDR Books et al in her latest column: "J.K. Rowling's Suit Against Those Who Plan to Publish an Unauthorized Harry Potter Encyclopedia: Who Should Win?"Hilden goes through the usual four-factor fair use test, though I was also interested in her ( Read more... )

Hi there, everyone...this is (obviously) a first-time post from me here, but I hope that it's appropriate and not a problem for anyone.

IANAL, but a few weeks ago, I emailed Julie Hilden, one of the FindLaw columnists I read regularly, suggesting that she might want to write about the OTW in a future column, since the issues surrounding it (like ( Read more... )

Interesting article on big companies using personal photos without permission or attribution.

The article doesn't explain the law particularly well, but I would *love* to see an average joe sue a media company and force them to argue fair use on the record.

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American University's Center for Social Media has a new report out on fair use, "Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video."

From the exec summary: As online video burgeons, so do questions about what kinds of uses of copyrighted works are legal online. Inevitably, those questions will be settled at least as ( Read more... )

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/2007/10/31/rowling-and-wb-file-suit-over-unofficial-encyclopediaRead more... )