Publisher Appeals Fees Denial In Copyright Suit Over Instagram Photo Post

Mealey's (August 17, 2021, 1:30 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — A publisher that prevailed in a photographer’s copyright infringement suit against it but was denied a motion for attorney fees, argues in an Aug. 16 brief to the Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that a trial court judge improperly focused on the novel aspect of the photo at issue being an embedded Instagram post, rather than on the fact that the publisher’s posting of the picture was deemed fair use....