Sixto Nunez v. Caribbean International News Corp. (El Vocero De Puerto Rico)

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that “using [copyrighted] photographs in conjunction with editorial commentary” was transformative
• finding transformative use of photographs in news story where “the pictures were shown not just to titillate, but also to inform”
• modeling photograph transformed when published as part of newspaper coverage of a related controversy
• noting this factor weighs less where copyrighted works are not “confidential or secret”
• “[Defendant] did not aim to use the photographs to compete with Núñez, nor to supplement his right of first production”
• “Given the difficulty of characterizing the ‘nature’ of the photographs, we find that the impact of their creativity on the fair use finding is neutral.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).