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Legend has it that Judge Learned Hand wrote this line in a per curiam opinion,
Dellar v. Samuel Goldwyn,
Inc.
1: “[T]he issue of fair use.is the most troublesome in the whole law of copyright….” As recent court decisions reflect, there is turmoil in copyright law, specifically regarding the fair use doctrine in the context of transformative works, but more clarity may be approaching. The Second Circuit’s recent panel holding in the
Warhol v. Goldsmith matter, discussed below, suggests that re-expressing a copyrighted image belonging to another does not entitle the new work to a fair use defense.
Abandoned MoneyGram checks are governed by federal unclaimed property law, which provides that the state where they were purchased should lay claim to them, a special master appointed by the U.S. Supreme Court found, handing Delaware a significant defeat.
Associated Press NEW YORK Appeals judges hearing bail arguments seemed sympathetic Monday to claims that British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell is unjustly kept awake at night by guards ensuring she doesn’t die in jail like Jeffrey Epstein did while awaiting his sex trafficking trial. Two of three judges on a 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel in Manhattan expressed concern about light shined in her cell every 15 minutes at night as Federal Bureau of Prisons guards make sure she’s breathing. They did not, however, seem necessarily inclined to free Maxwell, 59, on bail before a July 12 trial on charges that she procured teenage girls for Epstein to sexually abuse and sometimes joined in the abuse. She has pleaded not guilty. Bail has been rejected three times since her arrest last July.