In a significant victory for movie studios, a federal judge in New Jersey has ruled that movie "trailers" are an art form protected by copyright law and therefore cannot be streamed on the Internet without permission. The judge also ruled that the "fair use" doctrine does not protect a company that created its own version of such trailers after the studios requested that theirs be taken off the Internet.
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Trailers Parked
The Legal Intelligencer
August 13, 2003
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