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Núñez: photographs at the center of a news story

Decision date · 14 July 2000

Context photograph: The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, seat of the First Circuit in Boston.
Context photograph: The John Joseph Moakley Courthouse, seat of the First Circuit in Boston. ajay_suresh · CC BY 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

A newspaper published modeling photographs of a beauty queen amid a public controversy about the images.

The decision

The court upheld fair use because the photographs themselves were central to the story being reported.

Source

First Circuit · 235 F.3d 18

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