Copyright, Exceptions, and Fair Use: Crash Course Intellectual Property #3

Stan Muller teaches you a few things about copyright enforcement, and talks about the exceptions to copyright enforcement. While there are several, the one you’ve probably heard of is Fair Use, and it’s a pretty tricky one. We’ll try to explain it, and teach you just why fair use is so loosey goosey.

Citation1: 17 USC 503
Citation 2: Hargreaves, Ian. Digital Opportunity: A Review of Intellectual Property and Growth. UK Intellectual Property Office. P 5
Citation 3: Iowa State Univ. Research Found., Inc. v. American Broadcasting Cos., 621 F.2d 57 (2d Cir. 1980)
Citation 4: Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. v. Nation Enters., 471 U.S. 539, 551, 105 S. Ct. 2218, 85 L. Ed. 2d 588 (1985) (quoting) Joseph McDonald, Non-Infringing Uses, 9 Bull. Copyright Soc’y 466, 467 No. 355 (1962)
Links We Promised:

Copyright Office Fair Use Index

http://copyright.gov/fair-use/

Best Practices Documents

When Movies Go to Washington: Documentary Films & Public Policy in the United States (Vol 1)

http://infringementnation.com

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