District Court, S.D. Illinois February 15, 2018, 17–cv–3144 (KBF) (Goldman v. Breitbart News Network, LLC)

KATHERINE B. FORREST, United States District Judge

When the Copyright Act was amended in 1976, the words "tweet," "viral," and *586"embed" invoked thoughts of a bird, a disease, and a reporter. Decades later, these same terms have taken on new meanings as the centerpieces of an interconnected world wide web in which images are shared with dizzying speed over the course of any given news day.