I'm not sure about this. If it is fair use in one instance, it should be fair use in all instances. I don't think there is a legal difference between having one fair use magazine cover and having 200, providing each use meets the fair use standards. In cases where multiple-sources from a single copyright holder were held not to be fair use (i.e. Twin Peaks) it was because the sum collection of the uses really did take away from the use of the original source (i.e. was basically a detailed plot abridgment and could be read without watching the shows). I don't think that's the same thing as using a large number of completely separate magazine or DVD covers. At least, that's my understanding of it.
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On 1/18/06, Justin Cormack justin@specialbusservice.com wrote:
On 17 Jan 2006, at 17:26, Phil Boswell wrote:
If you were to upload one fair use image per day, complying properly with the rules for each one, you would have 365 after a year, having broken no laws.
Not if they were from the same source.
I can use one sentence of your book as fair use, but if I use them all one at a time its not fair use any more, as I have copied the entire book.
Similarly one Playboy magazine cover is probably ok, but the number we have probably isnt.
Fair use has to be considered as a whole.
Justinc
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