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    "pk": 60216,
    "title": "First World Problems:' A Fair Use Analysis of Internet Memes",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "The phenomenon of Internet memes pictures with juxtaposed text\n \nthat are replicated by derivative authors to the point where the pictures\n \ntranscend the importance of the original posting and its underlying\n \nwork-has become a pervasive component of mass Internet culture.\n \nYet, there is little legal scholarship on the subject. This Article seeks to\n \nfill that void or at least, a small part of it-by exploring whether or\n \nnot an Internet meme could survive an action for copyright infringement\n \nby asserting a fair use defense. To that end, this Article considers\n \nwhat Internet memes are and compares them to \"actual\" memes, as\n \nthe term was originally conceived in Richard Dawkins's \nThe Selfish\n \nGene. Positing that Internet memes share many characteristics with\n \nactual memes as described by Dawkins, the Article goes on to show\n \nhow those memes serve the functions of the theoretical concepts that\n \nground the fair use defense (namely, cultural interchange, market failure,\n \nand productive consumption). The Article ultimately argues that a\n \nmeme user will likely prevail if he asserts the fair use defense.",
    "language": "en",
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    "section": "Articles",
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    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/96h003jt",
    "frozenauthors": [
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            "first_name": "Ronak",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Patel",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": "2015-04-25T17:22:14+01:00",
    "date_accepted": "2015-04-25T17:22:14+01:00",
    "date_published": "2013-01-01T00:00:00Z",
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