03-07-2025, 02:53 AM
(03-07-2025, 02:14 AM)benji wrote: I think you should probably be looking for a successful copyright infringement suit over 20 seconds of usage of anything
not to belabor the conversation but just because fair use is interesting:
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/cases/
Not a fair use: A television station’s news broadcast used 30 seconds from a four-minute copyrighted videotape of the 1992 Los Angeles beating of Reginald Denny. Important factors: The use was commercial, took the heart of the work, and affected the copyright owner’s ability to market the video. (Los Angeles News Service v. KCAL-TV Channel 9, 108 F.3d 1119 (9th Cir. 1997).)
Not a fair use: A poster of a “church quilt” was used in the background of a television series for 27 seconds. Important factors: The court was influenced by the prominence of the poster, its thematic importance for the set decoration of a church, and the fact that it was a conventional practice to license such works for use in television programs. (Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, Inc., 126 F.3d 70 (2d Cir. 1997).)