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What We Learned This Week: Dirty Trick Photo is Fair Use; Supremes Won't Hear "Jumpman" Case

By David Schonauer   Friday April 5, 2019


It may have been a political dirty trick.

But it wasn’t copyright infringement.

This week we learned a Montana judge has ruled that unauthorized use of an image to criticize a Democratic candidate was fair use.

The judge, Dana L. Christensen, sided with the Republican National Committee in a 2017 …


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