A YouTube couple who raised $170,000 in a crowdfunding campaign to defend against a copyright infringement claim won a ruling that their critique of another video was protected as fair use.
The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a ruling Aug. 23 that the clips Ethan and Hila Klein used of a video by Matt Hosseinzadeh were necessary to put their commentary and criticism of his videos into context (Hosseinzadeh v. Klein, 2017 BL 295259, S.D.N.Y., No. 16-3081, 8/23/17). Hosseinzadeh’s Bold Guy series features a parkour enthusiast, played by himself, who successfully pursues ...
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