Coming soon to pay-per-view: How the digital Millennium Copyright Act enables digital content owners to curcumvent educational fair use

From: American Business Law Journal | Date: October 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

From the infancy of copyright protection, some opportunity for fair use of copyrighted materials has been thought necessary to fulfill copyright's very purpose, " [t] o promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts."1 U.S. Supreme Court, Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc. (1994) Throughout our history, the ability of individual members of the public to access and to use copyrighted materials has been a vital factor in the advancement of America's economic dynamism, social development, and educational achievement.2

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