Thus ends the 12th Annual Fair Use Week, and after the Warhol decision, it must be asked whether the parties who invented this holy week of the copyleft intend to continue the farce much longer. As a refresher, the fair use doctrine has been part of the U.S. Copyright Act since 1976 and a subject of judge-made law since at ...
In both Andy Warhol Foundation v. Lynn Goldsmith (SCOTUS) and Hachette et al v. Internet Archive (SDNY), the amicus briefs are piling up fast. Not that I have any intention of writing about every argument presented in either case, but rummaging through the briefs in Warhol, one filed by a group of documentary filmmakers on behalf of AWF caught my ...
