2nd Circuit Deems Online Media-Monitoring Service To Not Be Fair Use

Mealey's (February 28, 2018, 1:27 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — Although a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel majority on Feb. 27 found certain functions of a web-based media monitoring and archiving service to be somewhat transformative, the service’s effect on the potential market for Fox News Network LLC to offer a similar service defeated the service provider’s fair use defense against copyright infringement claims, the majority ruled (Fox News Network LLC v. TVEyes Inc., No. 15-3885, 2nd Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 4786)....