The Little Girl with the Big Voice
By Documentary Film Program on November 30, 2015 at 5:09 pm
A healthy copyright system must balance the need to provide strong economic incentives through exclusive rights with the need to protect important public interests like free speech and expression. Fair use is foundational to that balance. It's role is to prevent copyright from stifling the creativity it is supposed to foster, and from imposing other burdens that would inhibit rather than promote the creation and spread of knowledge and learning.
The Fair Use Project (FUP) was founded in 2006 to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom and protect important public rights. It is the only organization in the country dedicated specifically to providing free and comprehensive legal representation to authors, filmmakers, artists, musicians and other content creators who face unmerited copyright claims, or other improper restrictions on their expressive interests. The FUP has litigated important cases across the country, and in the Supreme Court of the United States, and worked with scores of filmmakers and other content creators to secure the unimpeded release of their work.
By Documentary Film Program on November 30, 2015 at 5:09 pm
By Annemarie Bridy on November 23, 2015 at 7:40 am
This article is part of an IP-Watch and Infojustice.org series analyzing the Trans Pacific Partnership intellectual property provisions by leading experts around the world. The series will publish weekly on Infojustice.org through the first quarter of 2016.
Read more about A User-Focused Commentary on the TPP’s ISP Safe Harbors
By Ryan E. Long on October 21, 2015 at 5:28 pm
Sometimes the best choice when you come to a fork in the road is to retreat, or even merge the two forks by taking one then going off road to the other! And yet binary thinking will force us to choose between the right or left fork, even if both forks suck standing alone. Only by understanding the perils of binary thinking can you protect against its destabilizing bipolar effects in conflict resolution. Read more about The good, bad, and ugly of binary thinking . . .
By Daphne Keller on October 12, 2015 at 8:23 am
This periodically updated blog post lists empirical studies I have come across that attempt to document accuracy/error rates when platforms remove user-generated content under legal notice and takedown systems. Read more about Empirical Evidence of “Over-Removal” by Internet Companies under Intermediary Liability Laws