How Martin Luther King film Selma was made without quoting civil rights leader | Daily Mail Online

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How Martin Luther King film Selma was made without quoting civil rights leader | Daily Mail Online.

This article will be among the topics for our first class. Issues of note:

1. Why didn’t Paramount sue for a declaratory judgment?

2. Does Hollywood have a vested interest in not strengthening the fair use exception to U.S. copyright law?

3. Does this simply prove that “Copyright chill” is real as you can’t have it both ways with respect to point 2 above.

4. Would the situation be different in Canada because fair dealing is different from fair use?

5. Would “moral rights” which is part of our law, change the situation if it had happened in Canada?

6. Implications of any/all of the above?

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