Social Media Eyes Embed Policies as Courts Mull Copyright Limits
Mike Hobbs, a partner in Troutman Pepper's Intellectual Property Practice Group, was quoted in a July 2, 2020 Bloomberg Law article titled, " Social Media Eyes Embeds as Courts Mull Copyright Limits."
“Instagram, right now, is binary: Public or private. And that’s ‘damned if you do damned if you don’t’ if you’re a photographer because you want publicity for your work, but you want people to license it,” copyright attorney Michael D. Hobbs of Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP said. “My suspicion is that there would be something of a business decision and business resolution that would allow users to opt-out of embedding.”
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“It would be nice to have reconciliation of the state of the law on this, Hobbs said. “Deciding this all through lawsuits is a very expensive way of resolving these matters.”