Equals Three, LLC v. Jukin Media, Inc.

ORDER GRANTING IN PART AND DENYING.IN PART JUKIN MEDIA, INC.’S MOTION FOR PARTIAL SUMMARY JUDGMENT AND JUDGMENT [34]

STEPHEN V. WILSON, United States District Judge

I. INTRODUCTION

This copyright action centering around funny videos presents issues that are any*1098thing but simple. The instant motion requires the Court to evaluate whether a humorist’s use of “viral videos”1 is a fair use. This complicated inquiry requires this Court to make distinctions along the fuzzy boundaries between commenting on humorous videos in a transformative manner and simply exploiting them for their inherent humor…