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Precedent for federal cases is typically first set at the appellate level. If you're working your activism through the courts, you usually have to lose before
by CaptainNegative 4y ago
Precedent for federal cases is typically first set at the appellate level. If you're working your activism through the courts, you usually have to lose before you can win.
- ocdtrekkie 4y agoThere is a less than zero percent chance this Supreme Court decides in favor of the Internet Archive, if they ever even cared to hear the case.
- bentley 4y ago“This” Supreme Court? As opposed to any other Supreme Court? Which Supreme Courts have been friendly to fair use and opposed copyright expansionist arguments?
- thewildginger 4y agoWhile this was the southern district of new York, the 9th circuit court of appeals ruled on a similar issue with Vidangel on 2016. They would buy DVDs and let people pay to watch a censored version, even going so far as to purchase a physical version for every one that was streamed for censorship, and they claimed fair use. They were ruled against and filed for chapter 11. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._VidAngel#:~:text=Judge%20Birotte's%20order%20blocked%20VidAngel,VidAngel%20streamed%20was%20not%20an https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney_v._VidAngel#:~:text=J... I'm sure someone will reply to tell us how it's not really that similar but I thought there were some parallels
- bawolff 4y agoAnd honestly they probably have a better (albeit still terrible) case because it was transformative