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The FAIR USE Act is Boucher’s third attempt at reforming provisions within the DMCA, the previous two being the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Acts (DMCRA) of 2003 and 2005. [3] Previously, Boucher co-sponsored the “ Benefit Authors without Limiting Advancement or Net Consumer Expectations ,” or “BALANCE Act,” which sought to amend ...
The first Fair Use Week included blog posts from national and international fair use experts, live fair use panels, fair use workshops, and a Fair Use Stories Tumblr blog, [83] where people from the world of art, music, film, and academia shared stories about the importance of fair use to their community. [84]
A fact from FAIR USE Act appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 2 April 2011 (check views).The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that in 2007, the 110th U.S. Congress introduced the FAIR USE Act, which would have prevented the Supreme Court from levying damages against companies for secondary infringement?
"Fair use" is a defense against claims of infringement according to U.S. copyright law. That is, it is something one can claim if one is sued for copyright infringement. If a court judged the use to be "fair", the use would not be infringement. The use of "fair use" tags on Wikipedia is a form of "pre-emptive defense" -- they are a statement ...
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The Fair Use Project is part of the Stanford Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School. Founded in 2006, it offers legal assistance to "clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "fair use" in order to enhance creative freedom." [1] It is headed by Tony Falzone, lecturer at Stanford Law. [2]
Combined with the noncommercial, nonprofit nature of time-shifting, the court concluded that such behavior indeed qualified as fair use. [ 1 ] Children's television personality Mr. Rogers ' testimony supporting the manufacturers of VCRs before the district court was taken into consideration for the Supreme Court's decision.