Fair use biography

One of the things that I love about working at the University of Virginia is that the scholars here are engaged in the world.

The things UVA professors (and students!) study, teach, and write about contribute to both the cutting edge academic discourse and the broader public conversation. Some of the works of scholarship by UVA professors to gain wide attention have been about the life and work of particular authors and historic figures, like William Faulkner or, as you may have stumbled across in a review in the recent issue of the New Yorker, Lord Byron.

As the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit explained in the landmark case Bill Graham Archives v.

Darling Kindersley:

While there are no categories of presumptively fair use, courts have frequently afforded fair use protection to the use of copyrighted material in biographies, recognizing such works as forms of historic scholarship, criticism, and com