Stanford CIS

Copyright and Fair Use

Blog

Fire in the Blood

An intricate tale of “monopoly, medicine and mass murder”, FIRE IN THE BLOOD is the story of how Western governments acting on behalf of pharmaceutical companie…

Case

Golan v. Holder

The FUP filed this suit on behalf of a University of Denver conductor and others, challenging Congress’s restoration of copyright to works that had entered the…

Project

Fair Use Project

The Fair Use Project (FUP) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in or…

Blog

CIS Is Going Dark To Stop SOPA

A wave of opposition has crashed over the House's Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Senate's Protect I.P. Act (PIPA) based on the tremendous threat…

Press

Should Picasso Be In Public Domain?

The argument issued before the Supreme Court by Anthony Falzone, Executive Director of the Fair Use Project, in Golan v. Holder is mentioned in the below BNA ar…

Project

Documentary Film Program

The Documentary Film Program provides filmmakers with information about fair use, access to insurance for liability arising out of copyright litigation, and acc…

Multimedia

What's Wrong With SOPA? - Video

A growing chorus of opposition has emerged around the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) now pending in the House, as well as its Senate counterpart, the PROTECT-IP…