Recently, Google Stadia “Creative Director” Alex Hutchinson said that gamers should pay license fees for livestreaming video games. Let’s explore the legal question of whether livestreaming is a Fair Use or Copyright Infringement. Dan Hagen’s Research: https://digitalcommons.law.uw.edu/wjlta/vol13/iss3/3/
The Notorious BIG is back to teach us about Copyright Transformation. Christopher Wallace’s estate (and others) were sued for infringement of The Last Poet’s lyric “party and bull . . .” in “When the Revolution Comes” from 1968. Let’s see why Biggie’s use of the phrase is a “quintessential fair use”.
