No. 21-6

Lawrence Marano v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Lower Court: Second Circuit
Docketed: 2021-07-06
Status: Denied
Type: Paid
Response Waived
Tags: attribution commercial-use copyright-fair-use copyright-infringement fair-use licensing-market statutory-factors transformative-use
Key Terms:
Copyright
Latest Conference: 2021-09-27
Question Presented (AI Summary)

Whether The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commercial use of a photograph was sufficiently transformative to warrant fair use

Question Presented (OCR Extract)

QUESTIONS PRESENTED 1. Whether The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s commercial use of a photograph on its Website to sell tickets to its museum exhibition, as well as in the “brick-andmortar” exhibition itself, was sufficiently transformative to warrant a finding in favor of fair use on the first statutory factor, 17 U.S.C §107(1). 2. Whether Petitioner stated a plausible claim that The Met’s use of his photograph was for commercial purposes. 3. Whether The Met’s use of the photograph across multiple media platforms without any attribution or credit to the constituted bad faith so as to weigh against a finding fair use. 4. Whether The Met’s use of the photograph usurped the actual or potential licensing market. 5. Whether the Court of Appeals properly analyzed the remaining statutory factors in light of its finding of transformative use.

Docket Entries

2021-10-04
Petition DENIED.
2021-08-11
DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 9/27/2021.
2021-08-04
Waiver of right of respondent The Metropolitan Museum of Art to respond filed.
2021-07-01
Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due August 5, 2021)

Attorneys

Lawrence Marano
James Harris FreemanLiebowitz Law Firm, PLLC, Petitioner
James Harris FreemanLiebowitz Law Firm, PLLC, Petitioner
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Linda J SteinmanDavis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Respondent
Linda J SteinmanDavis Wright Tremaine, LLP, Respondent