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Fair Use: From Star Trek to Prince... And You Get to Vote on U2


Level: Intermediate
Runtime: 64 minutes
Recorded Date: March 16, 2024
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Agenda

  • Overview of Copyright and Fair Use principles
  • Four Fair Use factors overview
  • Case Law examination of how the four factors play out across a range of famous media examples:
  • Star Trek, Gone with the Wind
  • Dr. Seuss, Catcher in the Rye
  • 2 Live Crew, Green Day, U2 and Elvis too
  • Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" and an upstart Republican Senate candidate
  • Fan Fiction
  • Tips for advising clients wanting to make works borrowing from other works.


For NY - Difficulty Level: Both newly admitted and experienced attorneys

Description

How well do you know the requirements for use of a work to qualify as “fair use” under copyright law? Experienced intellectual property litigator Peter Afrasiabi explains the rules in clear terms – for copyright aficionados and novices alike – while engaging in a lively discussion of key cases where famous works by Dr. Seuss, J.D. Salinger, Raymond Carver, Elvis, Prince, U2, Green Day, Gene Roddenberry (the creator of Star Trek) and many more were at issue.

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Peter Afrasiabi

Founding Partner
One LLP

Peter Afrasiabi is a founding partner at One, LLP, and focuses his practice on copyright, patent,trademark and entertainment litigation.
In addition, Peter is a professor and the Director of the Appellate Clinic at University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Peter graduated from University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.


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