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Court Rules Copying Photos Found on Internet is Fair Use

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hamradio:
An interesting article...



A Virginia federal court has made a decision that photographers won’t be happy to hear: the court ruled that finding a photo on the Internet and then using it without permission on a commercial website can be considered fair use.
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From: PetaPixel @ https://petapixel.com/2018/07/02/court-rules-copying-photos-found-on-internet-is-fair-use/

rgdot:
Comments by and large on the side of the photographer. What are the chances it would the same if this was about a song (writer/company distributing it)?
Humans

wraith808:
Comments by and large on the side of the photographer. What are the chances it would the same if this was about a song (writer/company distributing it)?
Humans
-rgdot (July 02, 2018, 09:05 PM)
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It should be.  I wonder what this does for the bit with Elon Musk that just came up.

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