{"id":8500,"date":"2015-01-21T19:54:18","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8500"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:00","slug":"its-copyright-week-fair-use-is-not-an-exception-to-copyright-its-essential-to-copyright","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/01\/21\/its-copyright-week-fair-use-is-not-an-exception-to-copyright-its-essential-to-copyright\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Copyright Week: Fair Use Is Not An Exception to Copyright, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Essential to Copyright"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/01\/fair-use-not-exception-copyright-its-essential-copyright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/copyright-square-13.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">Over the past two years, as talk of copyright reform has escalated, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also heard complaints about the supposed expansion of fair use, or &#8220;<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px;color: #cc0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/07\/fair-use-creep-and-other-copyright-bogeymen-appear-congress\">fair use creep<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That kind of talk woefully misunderstands how fair use works.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">Fair use provides breathing space in copyright law, making sure that control of the right to copy and distribute doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t become control of the right to create and innovate. New technologies and services depend on the creation of multiple copies as a matter of course. At the same time, copyright terms cover\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px;color: #cc0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2013\/05\/why-isnt-gatsby-public-domain\">works many decades old<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">\u00c2\u00a0and copyrighted software\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><a style=\"margin: 0px;padding: 0px;border: 0px;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px;color: #cc0000\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/01\/who-will-own-internet-things-hint-not-users\">appears in more and more device<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', Arial, sans-serif;font-size: 14px;line-height: 21px\">s. Taken together, these developments mean the potential reach of copyright may extend ever further. Fair use makes sure that the rights of the public expand at the same time, so add-on creativity and innovation can continue to thrive. In other words, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153fair use creep\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is an essential corollary to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153copyright creep.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2015\/01\/fair-use-not-exception-copyright-its-essential-copyright\">Fair Use Is Not An Exception to Copyright, It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Essential to Copyright | Electronic Frontier Foundation<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Copyright Week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past two years, as talk of copyright reform has escalated, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve also heard complaints about the supposed expansion of fair use, or &#8220;fair use creep.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That kind of talk woefully misunderstands how fair use works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[122,885,782,715],"class_list":["post-8500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-copyright","tag-copyright-week","tag-eff","tag-fair-use"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8507,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8500\/revisions\/8507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}