Amber Heard Today Show Interview Part 1 Reaction

Here is a sort of special episode of Elle Latham reacting to the first part of an interview with Amber Heard and Today Show's Savannah Guthrie. Fact checking included.

 

FAIR USE:  Legal doctrine that promotes freedom of expression by permitting the unlicensed use of copyright-protected works in certain circumstances. Section 107 of the Copyright Act provides the statutory framework for determining whether something is a fair use and identifies certain types of uses—such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research—as examples of activities that may qualify as fair use.  Section 107 calls for consideration of the following four factors in evaluating a question of fair use. (The relevant factor is below)

Purpose and character of the use, including whether the use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes:  Courts look at how the party claiming fair use is using the copyrighted work, and are more likely to find that nonprofit educational and noncommercial uses are fair.  This does not mean, however, that all nonprofit education and noncommercial uses are fair and all commercial uses are not fair; instead, courts will balance the purpose and character of the use against the other factors below.  Additionally, “transformative” uses are more likely to be considered fair.  Transformative uses are those that add something new, with a further purpose or different character, and do not substitute for the original use of the work.-(https://www.copyright.gov/fair-use/more-info.html)

 

SOURCE: Amber Heard responds to Depp’s lawyer calling her testimony the ‘performance of a lifetime’