I Found My Copyrighted Material on Social Media. Now What?

In the era of ubiquitous social media, artists, musicians, and content creators of all kinds regularly face a similar predicament: how to address unlicensed use of their works on such platforms. Whether on Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, or Instagram, users can easily copy and post copyrighted material without consent from the owner. It might be impossible

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What is Fair Use?

In our practice, we get a lot of questions surrounding what is and what isn’t fair use under copyright law. So, exactly what is fair use? It’s a legal doctrine designed to encourage freedom of expression of ideas, and it permits the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Unfortunately, although the doctrine is

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