California: Federal judge awards court costs in Inglewood copyright case

Incensed that the Inglewood mayor sued a citizen under copyright law for posting edited videos of city council meetings, a federal judge awarded the citizen court costs of $110,000. The judge had earlier ruled that California law prohibits a public agency from enforcing copyright and that even if it could be done, the citizen had the right to publish the videos under the fair use doctrine since the videos were “quintessential transformative works for the purpose of criticism and commentary on matters of public concern.”(The Volokh Conspiracy in the Washington Post, October 12, 2015, by Eugene Volokh)