by Laverne Berry, Esq. | Aug 29, 2021 | Fair Use
The US Supreme Court has recently brought a final resolution to the long-running battle between Google and Oracle, siding with the massive search engine and reversing a ruling by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in doing so. Read on to learn more below...
by Laverne Berry, Esq. | Jul 7, 2021 | Fair Use
The principle of Fair Use is ofter sited by media makers, but the steps needed to determine Fair Use are complex and sometime confusing. See: https://berryentertainmentlaw.com/legal-qas/. When faced with the defendant TV station’s motion to dismiss a...
by Laverne Berry, Esq. | Jun 29, 2021 | Fair Use
Over the years, Google has asserted the fair use doctrine in more than one lawsuit as a defense to using copyrighted material without permission. In a previous article, we discussed Google’s fair use win in the case Authors Guild v. Google. But courts don’t always see...
by Laverne Berry, Esq. | Jun 6, 2018 | Fair Use
Authors Guild v. Google Books is a seminal decision regarding application of the fair use doctrine in the digital age. Starting in 2004, Google began building a vast, publicly available digital library, comprised of scanned and digitized copies of more than 20 million...
by Laverne Berry, Esq. | Oct 23, 2012 | Fair Use
Fair use is a principle of copyright grounded in the idea that the public is entitled to use excerpts of copyrighted materials without permission in the publishing of commentary and criticism. Absent such permission, copyright owners would be completely immune to any...
