'Fair use' matters in dancing toddler copyright case: U.S. court | Reuters

'Fair use' matters in dancing toddler copyright case: U.S. court | Reuters

'Fair use' matters in dancing toddler copyright case: U.S. court People are silhouetted as they pose with mobile devices in front of a screen projected with a Youtube logo, in this picture illustration taken in Zenica October 29, 2014. Reuters/Dado Ruvic/Files + By Jonathan Stempel (Reuters) - Copyright holders must consider "fair use" before demanding the removal of videos that people post online, including on Google Inc's (GOOGL.O) YouTube, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Monday. In a closely followed case over a home video of a toddler dancing to the Prince hit "Let's Go Crazy," the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco made it tougher for content providers such as Vivendi SA's (VIV.PA) Universal Music Group to force Internet service providers to remove material. "Copyright holders cannot shirk their duty to consider - in good faith and prior to sending a takedown notification - whether allegedly infringing material constitutes fair use,

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