Harvard Law School professor Lawrence Lessig has gone to court seeking clarification that his use of copyrighted music in an amateur dance video illustrating one of his lectures on YouTube constitutes fair use.
Lessig filed suit on Thursday against Liberation Music Pty. Ltd. in the District of Massachusetts for threatening to sue him over his use of the song "Lisztomania" by the French band Phoenix.
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