Legal Opinion
Goldman v. Breitbart News Network, LLC
District Court, S.D. Illinois
Decided February 15, 2018No. 17–cv–3144 (KBF)PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KATHERINE B. FORREST, United States District Judge
When the Copyright Act was amended in 1976, the words "tweet," "viral," and *586"embed" invoked thoughts of a bird, a disease, and a reporter. Decades later, these same terms have taken on new meanings as the centerpieces of an interconnected world wide web in which images are shared with dizzying speed over the course of any given news day. That technology and terminology change means that, from time to time, questions of copyright law will not be altogether clear. In answering questions with previously uncontemplated technologies, however, the…
2Cases cited17 opinions
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