Dancing Baby Keeps Grooving To Prince While Court Beat Goes On!
by
Stephen M Stern on Jan. 05, 2016
Intellectual Property Copyright
Summary: Dancing Baby Keeps Grooving To Prince While Court Beat Goes On!
After 10 years of litigation, a federal court on Monday ruled that music company’s such as Universal, must consider fair use of their copyrights before firing off a demand letter that the alleged infringement must be taken down immediately. The lawsuit stemmed from a mother posting on YouTube a 29 second video of her baby dancing to Prince’s, “Let’s Go Crazy.” The case is of paramount importance as it relates to eradicating needless censorship under the auspices of copyright infringement when the use of the material had no impact on sales or misuse, but rather for fair use — an exception to copyright infringement. Courts analyze the purpose, type and amount of use of the work to determine whether it was fair use or infringement.
As a result of the ruling, Mom as well as her baby, are allowed to dance their way in front of a jury to seek damages against Universal for violating of their rights by forcing the YouTube takedown.
