Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive Faculty Scholarship Faculty Publications 2019 Fair Use in the United States: Transformed, Deformed, Reformed? Jane C. Ginsburg Columbia Law School,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the Computer Law Commons, Intellectual Property Law Commons, and the Internet Law Commons Recommended Citation Jane C. Ginsburg, Fair Use in the United States: Transformed, Deformed, Reformed?, SINGAPORE JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES, VOL. 2020, P 265, 2020; COLUMBIA PUBLIC LAW RESEARCH PAPER NO. 14-639 (2019). Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/2676 This Working Paper is brought to you for free and open access by the Faculty Publications at Scholarship Archive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship by an authorized administrator of Scholarship Archive. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Forthcoming 2020, Singapore Journal of Legal Studies Fair Use in the United States: Transformed, Deformed, Reformed? -- Jane C. Ginsburg* Abstract Since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 1994 adoption of “transformative use” as a criterion for evaluating the first statutory fair use factor (“nature and purpose of the use”), “transformative use” analysis has engulfed all of fair use, becoming transformed, and perhaps deformed, in the process. A finding of “transformativeness” often foreordained the ultimate outcome, as the remaining factors, especially the fourth (impact of the use on the market for or value of the copied work), withered into restatements of the first. For a time, moreover, courts’ characterization of uses as “transformative” seemed ever more generous (if not in some instances credulous).