6th Circuit Rejects Parent’s Fair Use Argument For Obtaining School Survey Copy

( January 16, 2026, 10:45 AM EST) -- CINCINNATI — A Kentucky federal judge was correct to dismiss a parent’s pursuit of a declaratory judgment that the fair-use exception of the Copyright Act permitted her to request a copy of a mental health survey that was to be administered to students at a Kentucky public high school, a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held; the panel agreed that the parent’s claims did not arise under copyright law....