Saturday, May 28, 2016

Pooh News

In this school, educators can easily claim fair use on "Pooh News". First, fair use looks at the context of the material. Pooh news was for educational purposes. Another question one should ask is the use transformative. The name "Pooh News" is transformative because the intent of the name is not the same as the copyrighted "Winnie the Pooh".  The next is the amount of copying that took place in comparison to the whole work. This is clear that the students' only used a small portion of the copyrighted work. Next, the question of whether or not the "Pooh News" would infringes upon the market value of "Winnie the Pooh". I think that this is clear that it would not. Finally, one can not control all information about any particular source. One can not sensor all uses of Winnie the pooh because of fair use.

1 comment:

  1. Correct, although the school chose not to make a big deal of it and dropped the use of the name.

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