Fair Use - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 06:49:33 pm
content: Regarding copyright, for a live public presentation (PowerPoint) that is hosted by a third party, like for a trade show, do images copied from various websites fall under fair use? The presentation may be recorded and later posted online by the host as an on-demand lecture. The topic covers public safety considerations during an emergency, and our company offers products related to some of those considerations, and are also featured in the presentation. Would this still fall under fair use as an education lecture?

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 06:51:24 pm
content: Since this is a legal, not technical, question, you need to specify which countries are involved.Copyright law varies with jurisdiction.

author: mendip_discovery
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 07:36:54 pm
content: If the host/talker posts it to YT then link to the YT vid. Is the safest.I would talk to the person doing the talk. Many are happy if you include certain part of the message. Especially if its safety related. The issue they might have is they cant endorse a product or be seen endorsing one. But you might be able to make that clear and all will be ok. This is the experience I have from dealing with press/pr for a charity as a volunteer.

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 08:00:12 pm
content: It's US market.The speaker made the presentation. I'm just looking at it and telling him, hey, you can't use those images. We'll get sued. One I'm not certain of, a screen snippet of a news headline and subline, from Business Travel News.

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 08:07:05 pm
content: Fair use does not protect you from being sued. But if it's a transformative work which does not compete with original source and only uses a small portion of it, then most likely you will win the case.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 08:12:22 pm
content: FAQs from the US government department in charge of copyright law:https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.htmlA more legal-oriented site from the same office:https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/index.html

author: Rick Law
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 08:22:17 pm
content: One thing that will help is to display credits to the original source on the same screen/slide -- this shows clear intention that you are merely using it to add to or explain your points but not trying to claim as your own something "stolen".Something like "Picture from XYZ (if appropriate add:) by PersonA, PersonB..."

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 08:23:21 pm
content: I expect that it's going to depend a lot of the purpose of the presentation. Are you charging people to view it or is it open to everyone?

author: metrologist
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 09:32:53 pm
content: It's an exhibition and we are conducting speaking sessions. The event coordinators charge both exhibitor and admission fees.Moot point now because we're changing all of the images.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2023, 09:46:13 pm
content: This is what public domain images are for.A small image as an illustration of some point you're making may pass as fair use, but if your entire presentation is made of copyrighted images with no one's consent, that would be pushing it a bit far.