/r/IPFairUse

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/r/IPFairUse is a forum to share and discuss fair use issues in copyright and trademark law.

Please note that nothing in this subreddit should be considered legal advice.

  1. This subreddit is primarily designed to share and discuss fair use issues relating to copyright and trademark law.

  2. Do not ask for legal advice.

  3. If possible, provide sources (preferably links as well) for your inquiries and propositions. Fair use is a case-by-case exercise, and details matter greatly.

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Commenting on some other work in my own novel.

If I make a reference to some other song with its title, and then explain it's one or two lines or all the lines in my own words, and narrate how the character feel. Would that be under copyright?

Same question for any other trademarked novel, character, story, movie or game.

Can someone explain this for me?

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2024/10/22
11:32 UTC

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opinion?

Nintendo is DMCAing Gmod addons of their IPs, this will leave most or some animators without jobs as some or most people have YouTube as one of, or their Only source of income, another bad thing that could happen is some animators might've not been able to backup their addons and/or maps in time, we have rights to fair use of content, so why are they doing this? what's your opinion on this?

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2024/07/16
02:21 UTC

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Animal themed poetry cover

Just like the title says - would this be a problematic concept? Covering poems but as if its focus is for a racoon or a Llama or whatever?

What's your input?

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2024/07/01
22:33 UTC

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So, you guys are going to hate me for this one, it’s about AI Sponge: Rehydrated.

So, I have posted a few short videos from a recent AI Sponge: Rehydrated stream, but I have come into possession of about 5 hours of footage from the last part of it. I would like to post it for people to have a good laugh, but I’d also like to use it to demonstrate Artificial Intelligence capabilities. 5 hours is a bit long for fair use as far as I understand, but I’d still like to post it to prevent it from becoming lost media. And I a knowledge Paramount/Viacom’s hostility towards anything AI Sponge related, so how should I go about this? I don’t plan to monetize it, but I can’t disable it either as my YouTube channel is still too small to make money from. I plan to let people know it’s not real SpongeBob and is not intended to impersonate SpongeBob, and I plan to remove any vulgar, but include some things like a clip of SpongeBob having Patrick take 40 Benadryls to show how AI should not be taken for its word. Is it ok for me to post this, should I ask anyone for permission, etc?

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2024/06/30
16:24 UTC

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YouTube question

The context, without going into detail, is using a movie-clip with added animation (manually cut in), to help support a commentary point; such as putting someone's head on a copyrighted character in a movie to help illustrate the concept. Is that fair use?

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2024/03/01
22:49 UTC

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Using a single image from a movie in a game

Hi

If I was to create a game of some sort which would eventually go on sale on steam could I use a single image from a movie under fair use or parody laws?

Specifically I have in mind, using an image from Anchor man of Will Ferrel aka Ron Burgundy reading the news on a tv in the background of scene.

Having him as the newscaster instead of some custom created npc for that would be funny imo and a nod to an enjoyable movie from my younger days.

I would repeat that a few times over the course of the game, like 3-4 tops with the news on in the background and 1 scene where the main cast pays attention to story as the news report at the point would be advancing the plot, but over all the use would be probably 1% of the total game, if that even.

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2024/02/06
08:17 UTC

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Film

Hey guys,

I'm a filmmaker, and I was wondering whether fair use transfers across when referencing the fair use media, for instance if I was to get the rights from someone commenting on something in a fair use manner, a youtube video or educational video, and use that footage in my movie, would their original fair use usage of material transfer across?

Any help/thoughts appreciated!

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2023/04/23
12:05 UTC

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Use of film excerpts

Hi, I am a beginner blogger creating educational videos. I have seen many videos where teachers use excerpts from films in their videos. I wonder whether I can do the same - use extracts from films that have been in the public domain for 20 years or so to illustrate my point? Or is it not good practice?

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2023/03/23
13:04 UTC

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Monitoring for Infringement

Anyone have recommendation for a software or service to monitor the internet for a companies digital intellectual property? Example forms include digital book content, videos, or PDF documents.

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2022/06/22
23:52 UTC

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University Event.... Fair use or trademark infringement??

Hello, recently for a class of mine we had to host an event that was for the community. We decided to host a free girls youth basketball camp. For this camp, my group collaborated with the University's Women's Basketball team. On the poster/flier that went out to the newspaper, we had our club logo and school logo on it.

Our event was shut down 48 hours before tipoff after two months of work. One reason being the incorrect use of the schools logo.

My question is since we are all former athletes (played all four years) and current students (5th years) at the same university, would this still be considered trademark infringement or incorrect use of the trademark?

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2021/04/14
15:41 UTC

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Is Fair Use Really FAIR on YouTube?

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2020/10/01
13:33 UTC

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Copyright strike

I received a copyright strike on this video i made.

I don't think I need to worry about it because my channel is very new and it's not monetized.

But I would like to know if this counts as fair use. I used 2 verses from the DMX song Where the Hood At and added my own video to it,framing the verses in a specific context to highlight the humour.

If it is not fair use perhaps I won't make any more of these types of videos

1 Comment
2017/11/01
21:49 UTC

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Does this count as fair use?

0 Comments
2017/09/14
23:22 UTC

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