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Archive: February 2018 (1 Post)

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Knowing When You Can Use a Copyrighted Work

Posted by: George Thuronyi

The following is a guest post by Emma Kleiner, Barbara A. Ringer Program fellow. Can a gossip website use copyrighted images of celebrities without first obtaining a license? Is an author allowed to incorporate elements from a Dr. Seuss book into his own manuscript? You can find clues to answer these questions–and many others–in the …