Big Content Mounts Counterinformation Campaign Against Fair Use

[mandy]

If you've been following copyright debates for more than, say, 10 minutes, you're probably aware that "some rights good, more rights better!" might well be the motto of many content owners. Fair use and fair dealing put limitations on these otherwise exclusive rights, and they do so on the theory that copyright is not an absolute right to control and profit from every single use of a particular work. News reporting, classroom use, commentary, parody; in the US, at least, these don't require either permission or payment. But content owners aren't necessarily down with this way of thinking, and copyright expert William Patry believes that a "counter-reformation" is in the works to crimp worldwide plans to expand fair use...

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