Copyright Alert: New York Court Rules That Embedding Copyrighted Works Constitutes Copying Within the Meaning of the Copyright Act

In a series of alerts published in 2020, we discussed the evolving law which governs embedding, through Instagram’s API, Instagram photos on third-party websites. As we formerly discussed, Sinclair v. Ziff Davis LLC and McGucken v. Newsweek LLCrejected the argument that users of Instagram’s API have an automatic sublicense to use copyrighted material. On the […]