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Read our current issue: Volume 16, Issue 4 - Winter 2011

The Role of Transformative Use: Revisiting the Fourth Circuit’s Fair Use Opinions in Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens
By Jason M. Nolan
The Fourth Circuit opinion in Bouchat v. Baltimore Ravens illustrates the important role of copyright law’s transformative use doctrine in fair use cases. A secondary use of a copyrighted work is transformative if the work was employed in a different manner or for a different purpose. The majority opinion found the use of plaintiff’s work in documentary films of ...
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