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Ask Dr. Copyright® About AI

November 13, 2025 Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc: I keep reading that the New York Times, book publishers, authors, musicians, and others are bringing lawsuits against companies that develop artificial intelligence software, claiming that the AI companies are infringing copyright by using published materials to “train” AI. What’s going on? Signed,Genuinely Intelligent Dear GI: The authors and publishers object not only to […]

Ask Dr. Copyright — Music for Political Purposes

April 22, 2024 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright

Dear Doc: I’ve heard that politicians who use music at their campaign appearances and in their Internet postings (Tweets, Memes, and other stuff) need to get permission from the music artists, and that sometimes, they don’t. What happens then? Signed,Dazed and Confused   Dear D&C:The basic rule of copyright is that unless use of a […]

Ask Dr. Copyright © About Fair Use

June 15, 2023 Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc: I know that you have written a boatload of articles about “appropriation art,” where someone just grabs the copyright-protected work of another person, changes it a bit, and then sells it for a boatload of money, never giving the first artist a penny, and how this was totally legal. So how come I […]

Fair Use or Infringement — So Sorry

May 1, 2023 Copyright

Dozens of times over the past 10 years, we have written about the “fair use” exception to copyright infringement.  You may recall that “fair use” under the U.S. Copyright Act permits limited use of copyrighted works for purposes of “criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research.” It’s a complex area and one that is continuously […]

Ask Dr. Copyright © About You’ll Boldly Go

February 25, 2021 Ask Dr. Copyright

Dear Doc (hope you’re well and alive): I heard of a case that’s just jive.You can go, but not boldlySaid the judge, rather coldlyFar too Seuss, your project, contrived.  Signed,ComicMix Dear CM: I suppose that you are asking about a recent court decision in a dispute about the book “Oh, the Places You’ll Boldly Go!”, a mashup […]

Let’s Go Crazy and Support “Fair Use”

September 30, 2015 Copyright

In 2007, Stephanie Lenz posted a cute 29-second YouTube video of her 13-month-old son dancing and giggling to the music of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy”. Four seconds into the video Lenz asks her baby “what do you think of the music?” And the baby bobbles up and down holding his push toy. You have to […]

Ask Dr. Copyright – What’s Fair Use?

July 31, 2013 Ask Dr. Copyright, Copyright

Dear Doc: I know you’ve explained the legal concept of “fair use” before, but I have a question about that. Does it infringe an author’s copyright in a book to paraphrase one sentence from the book in a movie, if you give credit to the author, or is it fair use? Sincerely, Absolom Absolom,  Mississippi […]

The DMCA to the Rescue (Maybe) …

July 31, 2013 Copyright

In a recent embarrassing broadcast by KTVU television of San Francisco, the morning anchor, Tori Campbell, identified the pilots of the recent San Francisco Asiana airline crash as “Captain Sum Ting Wong,” “Wi Tu Lo,” “Ho Lee Fuk,” and “Bang Ding Ow.”   As she read the names, Campbell didn’t flinch and, even more perplexing, […]

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