2nd Circuit Confirms Hearing Date In Fair Use Suit With Amazon, Apple, Netflix

Mealey's (April 16, 2021, 8:54 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A May 5 hearing date was acknowledged on April 14 by the parties in a copyright infringement appeal, in which Netflix Inc., Apple Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. ask the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals to affirm a trial court’s finding that the inclusion of an eight-second clip of a children’s song in a burlesque documentary that the three companies streamed constituted fair use....