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Brammer: a photograph on a festival website

Decision date · 26 April 2019

Context photograph: The Fourth Circuit’s courthouse in Richmond, Virginia.
Context photograph: The Fourth Circuit’s courthouse in Richmond, Virginia. Smash the Iron Cage · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

A film festival website used Russell Brammer’s photograph of a Washington neighborhood to illustrate a guide.

The decision

The appeals court reversed the fair-use ruling, finding that the use served a conventional illustrative purpose.

Source

Fourth Circuit · 922 F.3d 255

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