Fair Use or Foul? Google on Copyright
When anyone copies a work, there are no set rules about what constitutes “fair” use or “infringing”. Courts apply more than one factor in making their rulings, and one court may weight these factors differently than another. Nevertheless, publishers are encouraging the contribution of user-generated content to their portals by postings to blogs, newsgroups and other forums, while derivative works such as altered images, movie clips and mash-ups proliferate. William Paltry, Senior Copyright Counsel, Google, focuses upon fair use in the context of B2B commerce, and identifies some of the pitfalls and precautions that every publisher or media provider should bear in mind.
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Jason Kichline is ScribeMedia's project manager and producer of ScribeMedia's Emmy Award winning series Reporting AIDS. He likes typos, fast food and MacGyver like solutions to life's nagging problems.
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