Dereck Seltzer v. Green Day, Inc.

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• holding that we review for abuse of discretion the district court’s award of attorney’s fees under § 505
• holding that we review for abuse of discretion the district court’s award of attorney’s fees under § 505
• holding that the losing party was not objectively unreasonable where the winning party only won on two out of four “fair use factors”
• explaining that a work is not transformative where the user \makes no alteration to the expressive content or message of the original work\
• finding that use of copyrighted image at concert was only incidentally commercial because it was never used to market concert or merchandise
• declining to find objective unreasonableness where the 24 case “was a close and difficult [one]”

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