Readers may be aware of YouTube celebrity couple Ethan and Hila
Klein, better known by their social media moniker @h3h3productions.
They rose to Internet fame producing comedic "reaction"
videos that ridicule and comment upon other Internet content,
boasting 4.9 million subscribers on their YouTube channel.
Not everyone laughed along though, particularly fellow YouTuber
Matt Hosseinzadeh, whose own comedy video the Kleins mocked on
their channel. Hosseinzadeh sued the Kleins for copyright
infringement in April of last year for appropriating excerpts of
his content in their reaction video.
U.S. federal Judge Katherine B. Forrest of the Southern District
of New York recently granted summary judgment in favor of the
Kleins, holding that fair use doctrine protects the Kleins'
mockery of Hosseinzadeh's video. Although the Kleins used
excerpts of Hosseinzadeh's copyrighted work in their reaction
video, Judge Forrest concluded: "Any review of the Klein
video leaves no
