transformative-use
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| Case | Title | Lower Court | Docketed | Status | Flags | Tags | Question Presented |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24A1263 | Designworks Homes, Inc., et al. v. Columbia House of Brokers Realty, Inc., dba House of Brokers, Inc., dba Jackie Bulgin & Associates, et al. | Eighth Circuit | 2025-06-23 | Presumed Complete | architectural-design commercial-use copyright-law fair-use intellectual-property transformative-use | Whether the fair use doctrine under copyright law permits commercial appropriation of an architect's proprietary house plans without compensation or c… | |
| 21-6 | Lawrence Marano v. The Metropolitan Museum of Art | Second Circuit | 2021-07-06 | Denied | Response Waived | attribution commercial-use copyright-fair-use copyright-infringement fair-use licensing-market statutory-factors transformative-use | Whether The Metropolitan Museum of Art's commercial use of a photograph was sufficiently transformative to warrant fair use |
| 20-1123 | Lenwood Hamilton v. Lester Speight, et al. | Third Circuit | 2021-02-16 | Denied | Amici (1)Response RequestedResponse WaivedRelisted (2) | civil-rights commercial-speech first-amendment free-speech likeness-rights privacy privacy-rights property-rights right-of-publicity transformative-use video-game-law | Whether the First Amendment right to free speech protects using a person's actual likeness without permission when weighed against that person's prope… |
| 18-321 | TVEyes, Inc. v. Fox News Network, LLC | Second Circuit | 2018-09-12 | Denied | Amici (1) | 17-usc-107 campbell-v-acuff-rose commercial-success copyright-law fair-use market-harm second-circuit statutory-factors transformative-use | Can the transformative use of a copyrighted work cause a cognizable market harm under 17 U.S.C. 107(4) if it is used in connection with a commercially… |