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One of the most pernicious ideas that copyright maximalism has spread is that preventing people from freely accessing creative material is not just a good thing to do, but should be the natural state of affairs. This has made questioning whether copyright is really the best way to support artists and promote creativity hard. Against…
Lawyers, scholars, and activists, including EFF, often highlight Section 512 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Section 230 (originally of the Communications Decency Act) as the legal foundations of the internet. But there’s another, much older, doctrine that’s at least as important: Fair use, which dates back many decades and it codified in law as Section 107 of the
Advocacy group plans to appeal one of Ellen Hobbs Lyle’s last rulings
Last week, 14 organizations wrote to leaders of the House Judiciary Committee to oppose dangerous legislation titled the "PRO Codes Act." The new bill