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…