Intellectual Property Law

Chapter 14 Internet Resources

1. Access the Fair Use Index at the Copyright Office’s website.

a. Locate the summary of Faulkner Literary Rights LLC v. Sony Pictures
Classics, Inc., 953 F. Supp. 2d 701 (N.D. Miss. 2013). Identify the issue
and the holding of the case.

b. Select “More Information on Fair Use.” Review Item 1. What is a
transformative fair use?

2. Access Circular 21 at the Copyright Office’s website and identify whether the
following are permissible under the Guidelines.

a. A teacher would like to copy two poems of Maya Angelou’s for her spring
2016 course “American Poets.”

b. A teacher would like to copy one recent 750-word article about the Wright
Brothers for his spring 2016 course “U.S. History.”

c. In 2016, a teacher is planning course materials for 2018 and makes copies
of a short story.

d. A teacher at a for-profit institution wishes to copy one article for 10
students in a course.

e. A music teacher has made a copy of a sound recording (disc) of a
copyrighted concerto in order to test his students on elements of the piece.

3. Access the Fair Use Checklist offered by Columbia University.

a. May you freely use the Checklist?

b. What two factors oppose fair use as to the amount of work taken from a
piece?

4. Locate information on Google’s Content ID program. What options may
copyright holders take if their material is used?