Clarification (RE: "Fair Use" Is Getting Unfair Treatment)

["Rick Anderson" <rickand@unr.edu>]

A point of clarification:

> Two recent federal court rulings in Hollywood's favor could undermine
> consumers' historical rights to use the content they buy

Actually, these rulings threaten to undermine consumers' historical rights
to use content they do _not_ buy.  There's a big difference between buying
a copy of, say, a book (which is generally what consumers do) and buying
the content of a book (which is generally what publishers do).  Fair use
is about using content owned by others.

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