I’m the defendant for Eric S. Faden. He has been accused copyright. Faden is a professor at Bucknell University , where he studies early cinema and digital image technology and creates film, video and multimedia scholarship. He created a video , where he used Disney clips to teach about copyright and fair use. Fair use is a copyright principle based on the belief that the public is entitled to freely use portions of copyrighted materials for certain purposes, such as, commentary, criticism, nonprofit educational purposes and parody. The remix used clips of disney movies to teach about copyright. In fair use there’s no minimum or maximum amount of work that can be copied. Copyright infringement occurs when someone other than the copyright holder uses the work in a way that violates the exclusive rights held by the copyright holder. In this case my client Eric S. Faden uses multiple short clips from Disney movies to …show more content…
It also explains fair use and it’s aspects. Some may view this video for entertainment but it was created for educational purposes. Even if this was for entertainment the video serves a different purpose than the original Disney films. This video also doesn’t profit from it’s use. Copyright infringement occurs when someone (other than the original creator) uses the work in a way that violates the exclusive rights held by the copyright owner. Copyright law states that, “ in order to use a copyrighted work without infringing, the user must either have permission from the copyright holder , or the use must fall within one of the limitations or exceptions to the copyrights holder’s exclusive rights, such as, fair use.” Fair use is excused due to it’s greater social benefit. Judges usually use the four factors to resolve a fair use dispute; the purpose and the character of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the