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Reconstructing Fairness: The Problem With Fair Use Exclusivity

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
Exemptions from copyright infringement play a pivotal role in the new digital economy. Tech companies rely heavily on fair use, fair dealing and other statutory exceptions, as well as on safe-harbor limitations of liability. For many businesses, the availability of a copyright exemption represents an asset that is as valuable as other intellectual ...
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Remixers' understandings of fair use online

Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2014
How do online content creators make decisions about copyright law? In the course of day-to-day online activities, Internet users are forced to make subtle judgments about one of the most confusing and nuanced areas of law, copyright and fair use. In this
Casey Fiesler, A. Bruckman
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Fair Use v. Fair Access [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008
In this paper, I make four points. 1. The copyright act defines use rights, not access rights. That overstates slightly - especially with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act in the statute - but the core of copyright law addresses how works can be used assuming that legal access has been obtained.
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Fair use and a fair go.

The Rangeland Journal, 1988
Pastoral managers face a bewildering array of management options while striving to remain viable. Many researchers and extension officers are forced to specialise, and "do good science" at the expense of working within a broader picture of practical station management.
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Fair Use and Its Politics - At Home and Abroad

, 2015
The manuscript explores how U.S. fair use – a “standard” in a world of statutory copyright rules – has become an arena of ideological struggle over IP policy. At the international level, this debate frequently plays out in terms of how 17 U.S.C.
J. Hughes
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Deciding Fair Use

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Article published in the Michigan State Law Review.
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Fair Use for Free, or Permitted-but-Paid?

, 2014
Fair use is an on/off switch: Either the challenged use is an infringement of copyright, or it is a fair use, which Section 107 declares "is not an infringement of copyright." As a result, either the copyright owner can stop the use, or the user not only
J. Ginsburg
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'I'm a Lawyer, Not an Ethnographer, Jim': Textual Poachers and Fair Use

, 2014
This short article, written for a festschrift for Henry Jenkins, discusses the influence of his work on media fandom in legal scholarship and advocacy around fair use.
Rebecca Tushnet
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Fair Use As an Advance on Fair Dealing? Depolarizing the Debate [PDF]

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Despite repeated calls for the introduction of a “fair use” defence to copyright infringement in Australia, there appears to be little prospect of Australia adopting such reform. Instead, the debate over copyright exceptions reform appears to be at impasse, with one camp arguing forcefully in favour of fair use and the other camp defending the status ...
Emily Hudson, Michael Handler
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Documenting Fair Use: Has the Statement of Best Practices Loosened the Fair Use Reins for Documentary Filmmakers?

, 2014
The United States Copyright Act allows for fair use of copyrighted material under certain circumstances, but federal courts have been inconsistent in rulings on copyright infringement cases in which documentary filmmakers claim fair use.
J. Abdenour
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