Legal Opinion
Hosseinzadeh v. Klein
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided August 23, 2017No. 16-cv-3081 (KBF)PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION & ORDER
KATHERINE B. FORREST, District Judge:
This action principally concerns whether critical commentary on a creative video posted on YouTube constitutes copyright infringement. Matt Hosseinzadeh (“plaintiff’) filed this action in response to a video (the “Klein video”) created by Ethan and Hila Klein (“defendants”) and in which they comment on and criticize plaintiffs copyrighted video (the “Hoss video”). (ECF No. .1.) The Kleins’ criticism and commentary is interwoven with clips from the Hoss video. The operative complaint alleges that defendants infringed plaintiffs copyrights,…
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