Report: Second Circuit Delivers Blow to News-Clip Service TVEyes

From the Courthouse News Service:

TVEyes does not have a fair-use defense to claims that it violated the Fox News Network’s copyright by allowing users to access an unlimited amount of television clips, the Second Circuit ruled Tuesday.
Though a federal judge already issued a permanent injunction against TVEyes, Tuesday’s ruling from the Manhattan-based appeals court says the injunction was premised on the mistaken assumption that it was protected by fair use.
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“At bottom, TVEyes is unlawfully profiting off the work of others by commercially re-distributing all of that work that a viewer wishes to use, without payment or license,” the 19-page opinion states.
Writing for a three-judge panel of the court, U.S. Circuit Judge Dennis Jacobs noted that TVEyes exceeded the bounds of otherwise permissible transformative service.

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