Organized by Bone McAllester Norton PLLCNashville has a special place in copyright fair use law, dating back to the seminal case involving 2 Live Crew’s use of Roy Orbison’s song Pretty Woman, which started here in Nashville and went all the way up to the Supreme Court – Campbell v. Acuff Rose. From this special vantage point in Music City, we’ll explore the elements of fair use, substantial similarity and de minimis copyrighting while listening to recent examples of similar songs, like (1) Sam Smith’s Stay With Me and Tom Petty’s I Won’t Back Down, and like (2) Robin Thicke’s and Pharrell Williams’ Blurred Lines and Marvin Gaye’s Got to Give it Up. In light of the 9th Circuit’s recent decision in the YouTube Dancing Baby case involving Prince’s Let’s Go Crazy, whose burden is it to examine fair use? What are the best practices for content creators, songwriters, video producers, and users of social media? How can creators maximize the advantages of technology without running afoul of copyright laws?
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