17 June 2020CopyrightKimberly Almazan and Lauren Bursey

Instagram: copyright free-for-all?

While most of the world has been stuck in quarantine during the COVID-19 outbreak, there have been a number of key developments regarding copyright infringement in New York regarding the use of images posted to the Facebook-owned social media platform Instagram.

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