[Advocacy Advisors] Tranformative use case in the USA

Amgine amgine at wikimedians.ca
Sat Jan 19 20:36:07 UTC 2013


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EFF has a press release[1] regarding Associated Press v. Meltwater,
where AP asserts the newsclipping service infringes because its use
cannot be "transformative" unless it is also "expressive".

Almost all direct quotes in Wikipedia would likely fail AP's
more-restrictive test, I suspect.

Amgine


[1]
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-urges-court-protect-transformative-uses-and-permit-news-search-engine
(full amicus brief https://www.eff.org/document/amicus-brief-14)
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