Case Harper And Row

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The test that was applied to Harper and Row was the Four Factor test to determine, if indeed it was was fair use. The first being the purpose or character of the use, in this case The Nation violated the copyright holder's commercially valuable right of first publication. Therefore The Nations intent was to benefit off the copyright holder's work first which was not a fair use. Secondly the nature of the copyrighted work, although in most cases this rule favors fair use, the work used had a substantial expressive value, if The Nation had only reported the facts in the work, they would have been in favor of fair use. The third rule applied was the amount and substantiality, in this case even with The Nation only taking a small amount it was constituted a substantial amount because the excerpt they took was the “heart of the work”. Lastly the rule applied here was the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. In other words because The Nation infringed on the original work it led to actual harm, Time Magazine who had the contract with Harper & Row canceled their publishing contract. …show more content…

Harper and Row had a contract with Time magazine and were planning to publish a story they obtained the rights for, however The Nation got a hold of it and published their work ruining the value and harming Harper and Row, who eventually lost their contact with Time. In our case, Matt’s work, which was used without permission and no recognition from Buzzfeed, constitutes as copyright infringement on his personal creation of the photo, being that it was his very own unique form of

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