YouTube’s ‘Dancing Baby’ Sets Fair Use Guideline

New York Times: In 2007, Stephanie Lenz, a mother in Gallitzin, Pa., went on YouTube and uploaded a 29-second video of her toddler dancing while Prince’s song “Let’s Go Crazy” played in the background. Prince’s publishers objected, Lenz filed a lawsuit, and for more than eight years the case has been symbolic of the clashes over copyright online. On Monday, an appeals court cleared the way for the case to go to trial, and set a guideline that may change the way media companies police their holdings online.