Georgia K. Harper\’s brief and useful introduction to U.S. copyright law, with a focus on fair use and the D.M.C.A.:
The balance that copyright law has achieved between the interests of copyright owners and the interests of the public has evolved slowly and has been only periodically adjusted. Today, however, the pace and the magnitude of change threaten to skew this balance to the point of collapse. Some of these changes — licenses, access controls, certain provisions in the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) — have the potential to drastically undermine the public right to access information, to comment on events, and even to share information with others.
More from the Journal of Electronic Publishing . Harper\’s earlier article \”Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials\” provides additional information on the tests used to determine fair use.
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