A federal appeals court reversed a fair use copyright decision that had rankled photography and copyright law groups.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit held that Violent Hues Productions LLC infringed photographer Russell Brammer’s copyright on a photo of Washington’s Adams Morgan neighborhood.
Posting a cropped version of the photo on the Northern Virginia International Film Festival website wasn’t transformative because it didn’t give the photo a new “expression, meaning, or message,” the court said in undoing a
lower court ruling that copyright advocates said distorted the law and validated online theft of photography.
Eleven organizations, including ...
Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:
See Breaking News in Context
Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis.
Already a subscriber?
Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources.