Sunday, July 25, 2010

Welcome to our world of Fair Use.

If you are not aware of fair use and it's role in free speech please consider it now.

Hmmmmmmmm. Big Idea huh.............well! Let's start to break it down

Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as for commentary, criticism, news reporting, research, teaching or scholarship. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. The term fair use originated in the United States. A similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright.
According to Wikipedia

So it seems that this is an established concept. So then new question is why are New Groups Like Reuters Thomson attacking Fair use. Didn't know that they are...well better go check out this blog to find out more.



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