Using the “Heart of the Work” is something everyone should consider before relying on the fair use defense

Heart of the work

Plaintiff Los Angeles News Service (LANS) licensed its news stories, photographs, audiovisual works, and other services to other news media outlets. While covering the 1992 Los Angeles riots, LANS filmed several segments of nighttime rioting, including the

Here are some recent cases that have come down dealing with Copyright Law.

  1. Virginia Fair Use Case:  (reversing a decision finding fair use in a photo copyright case involving a picture of Washington D.C.).  The Court noted:

“The fair use affirmative defense exists to advance copyright’s purpose of “promot[ing] the Progress of Science and