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Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use
A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authorization was a fair use of the work, in yet another blow to newspaper copyright troll Righthaven. It’s not often that republishing an entire work without permission is deemed fair use. Fair use is an infringement defense when the defendant reproduced a [...]

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Fair Use. One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords. ...
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Troll Fail: Righthaven Smacked Down Again
Notorious copyright litigation company Righthaven got another smack down from the Federal bench today, in Righthaven v. Hoehn . In line with Judge Roger Hunt’s decision last week , Judge Phillip Pro held that Righthaven did not own the copyright at issue, and – even if it did – the use in question was protected by the fair use doctrine.

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Judge Undercuts Online Copyright Law, Here's What That Looks Like
David Kravets, a writer for Wired's Threat Level blog, reports on the ruling handed down by a federal judge that, simply put, allowed for the reposting of an entire article without permission. To show how asinine that is, we've reposted Wired's entire article. You should actually go to Wired and read it. Don't read it here. In fact, the whole first sentence below is a link over to Wired. A ...

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Righthaven hit with third fair use loss over R-J material
A Kentucky man did not infringe on a copyright when he posted an entire Las Vegas Review-Journal column on a message board without authorization, a federal judge ruled today.

Warning Federal law allows citizens to reproduce distribute or exhibit portions of copyrighted motion pictures video tapes or video discs under certain circumstances without authorization
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Fair use: Definition from Answers.com
Fair Use In federal copyright law 17 U.S.C. §§101 et seq., refers to specific use of copyrighted materials without payment of royalties or which
Fair use a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without acquiring permission from the rights holders. Examples of fair use include commentary criticism news reporting research teaching library archiving and scholarship. It provides for the legal non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. The term fair use originated in the United States. A similar principle fair dealing exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright. Contents 1 Fair use under United States law 1.1 Purpose and character 1.2 Nature of the copied work 1.3 Amount and substantiality 1.4 Effect upon work's value 1.5 Fair use and professional communities 2 Practical effect of fair use defense 3 Fair use as a defense 4 The economic benefit of fair use 5 Fair use and parody 6 Fair use on the Internet 7 Common misunderstandings 8 Influence internationally 8.1 Fair dealing in Canada 8.2 Israel 8.3 South Korea 9 See also 10 References 11 Further reading 12 External links Fair use under United States law

Copyright troll's entire case gutted
A copyright troll which sued people for quoting an article has had its entire legal argument gutted by a federal judge.

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Documentary filmmakers have expanded their ability to employ fair use with a code of best practices. ... Fair use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted ...
The legal concept of "Test copyright" was first ratified by the Kingdom of Great Britain's Statute of Anne of 1709. As room was not made for the authorized reproduction of copyrighted content within this newly formulated statutory right the courts created a doctrine of "fair abridgment" in Gyles v Wilcox which eventually evolved into the modern concept of "fair use" that recognized the utility of such actions. The doctrine only existed in the U.S. as common law until it was incorporated into the Copyright Act of 1976 17 U.S.C.  107. 17 U.S.C.  107 Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 17 U.S.C.  106 and 17 U.S.C.  106A the fair use of a copyrighted work including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section for purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use) scholarship or research is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include: the purpose and character of the use including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; the nature of the copyrighted work; the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work. The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.1

Righthaven loses copyright case against online contributor
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The four factors of analysis for fair use set forth above derive from the classic opinion of Joseph Story in Folsom v. Marsh 9 F.Cas. 342 (1841) in which the defendant had copied 353 pages from the plaintiff's 12-volume biography of George Washington in order to produce a separate two-volume work of his own.2 The court rejected the defendant's fair use defense with the following explanation:

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A reviewer may fairly cite largely from the original work if his design be really and truly to use the passages for the purposes of fair and reasonable criticism. On the other hand it is as clear that if he thus cites the most important parts of the work with a view not to criticize but to supersede the use of the original work and substitute the review for it such a use will be deemed in law a piracy...

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Fair Trade products make more than $7 billion a year, helping more than 1 million workers around the world.

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State Fair will go on
Regardless of the flood, the 2011 North Dakota State Fair will go on, according to fair manager Renae Korslien. Keller Paving has been diking around the State Fair Center and grandstand.

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This section of BitLaw describes the fair use defense to a claim of copyright infringement, as well as a brief discussion of compulsory copyright licenses.
Once these factors were codified as guidelines in 17 U.S.C.  107 they were not rendered exclusive. The section was intended by Congress to restate but not replace the prior judge-made law. Courts are still entitled to consider other factors as well. Fair use tempers copyright's exclusive rights to serve the purpose of copyright law which the U.S. Constitution defines as the promotion of "the Progress of Science and useful Arts" (Art. I 8 cl. 8). This principle applies particularly well to the case of criticism and also sheds light on various other limitations on copyright's exclusive rights particularly the scenes faire doctrine. Purpose and character The first factor is regarding whether the use in question helps fulfill the intention of copyright law to stimulate creativity for the enrichment of the general public or whether it aims to only "supersede the objects" of the original for reasons of personal profit. To justify the use as fair one must demonstrate how it either advances knowledge or the progress of the arts through the addition of something new. A key consideration is the extent to which the use is interpreted as transformative as opposed to merely derivative. When Tom Forsythe appropriated Barbie dolls for his photography project "Food Chain Barbie" Mattel lost its claims of copyright and trademark infringement against him because his work effectively parodies Barbie and the values she represents.3 But when Jeff Koons tried to justify his appropriation of Art Rogers' photograph "Puppies" in his sculpture "String of Puppies" with the same parody defense he lost because his work was not presented as a parody of Rogers' photograph in particular but of society at large which was deemed insufficiently justificatory.4 However since this case courts have begun to emphasize the first fair use factorassessing whether the alleged infringement has transformative use as described by the Hon. Judge Pierre N. Leval.5 More recently Koons was involved in a similar case with commercial photographer Andrea Blanch6 regarding his use of her photograph for a painting whereby he appropriated a central portion of an advertisement she had been commissioned to shoot for a magazine. In this case Koons won; the case sets a favorable precedent for appropriation art where the use is deemed transformative. The subfactor mentioned in the legislation above "whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes" has recently been deemphasized in some Circuits "since many if not most secondary uses seek at least some measure of commercial gain from their use."7 More important is whether the use fulfills any of the "preamble purposes" also mentioned in the legislation above as these have been interpreted as paradigmatically "transformative." Although Judge Pierre Leval has distinguished the first factor as "the soul of fair use" it alone is not determinative. For example not every educational usage is fair.8 See also L.A. Times v. Free Republic described below. Nature of the copied work Although the Supreme Court of the United States has ruled that the availability of copyright protection should not depend on the artistic quality or merit of a work fair use analyses consider certain aspects of the work to be relevant such as whether it is fictional or non-fictional.9 To prevent the private ownership of work that rightfully belongs in the public domain facts and ideas are separate from copyrightonly their particular expression or fixation merits such protection. On the other hand the social usefulness of freely available information can weigh against the appropriateness of copyright for certain fixations. The Zapruder film of the assassination of President Kennedy for example was purchased and copyrighted by Time magazine. Yet their copyright was not upheld in the name of the public interest when they tried to enjoin the reproduction of stills from the film in a history book on the subject in Time Inc. v. Bernard Geis Associates.10 Following the decisions of the Second Circuit in Salinger v. Random House Inc.11 and in New Era Publications Int'l v. Henry Holt & Co.12 the aspect of whether the copied work has been previously published suddenly trumped all other considerations because of in the words of one commentator "the original author's interest in controlling the circumstances of the first public revelation of his work and his right if he so chooses not to publish at all." Yet somewho view this importation of certain aspects of France's droit moral d'artiste (moral rights of the artist) into American copyright law as "bizarre and contradictory" because it sometimes grants greater protection to works that were created for private purposes that have little to do with the public goals of copyright law than to those works that copyright was initially conceived to protect. This is not to claim that unpublished works or more specifically works not intended for publication do not deserve legal protection but that any such protection should come from laws about privacy rather than laws about copyright. The statutory fair use provision was amended in response to these concerns by adding a final sentence: "The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors." Amount and substantiality The third factor assesses the quantity or percentage of the original copyrighted work that has been imported into the new work. In general the less that is used in relation to the whole e.g. a few sentences of a text for a book review the more likely that the sample will be considered fair use. Yet see Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios for a case in which substantial copyingentire programs for private viewingwas upheld as fair use at least when the copying is done for the purposes of time-shifting. Likewise see Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation where the Ninth Circuit held that copying an entire photo to use as a thumbnail in online search results did not weigh against fair use "if the secondary user only copies as much as is necessary for his or her intended use." Conversely in Harper & Row Publishers Inc. v. Nation Enters13 the use of fewer than 400 words from President Ford's memoir by a political opinion magazine was interpreted as infringement because those few words represented "the heart of the book" and were as such substantial. Before 1991 sampling in certain genres of music was accepted practice and such copyright considerations as these were viewed as largely irrelevant. The strict decision against rapper Biz Markie's appropriation of a Gilbert O'Sullivan song in the case Grand Upright Music Ltd. v. Warner Bros. Records Inc.14 changed practices and opinions overnight. Samples now had to be licensed as long as they rose "to a level of legally cognizable appropriation."15 In other words de minimis sampling was still considered fair and free because traditionally "the law does not care about trifles." The recent Sixth Circuit Court decision in the appeal to Bridgeport Music has reversed this standing eliminating the de minimis defense for samples of recorded music but stating that the decision did not apply to fair use. Effect upon work's value The fourth factor measures the effect that the allegedly infringing use has had on the copyright owner's ability to exploit his or her original work. The court not only investigates whether the defendant's specific use of the work has significantly harmed the copyright owner's market but also whether such uses in general if widespread would harm the potential market of the original. The burden of proof here rests not on the defendant for commercial uses but on the copyright owner for noncommercial uses. See Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios16 where the copyright owner Universal failed to provide any empirical evidence that the use of Betamax had either reduced their viewership or negatively impacted their business. In the aforementioned Nation case regarding President Ford's memoirs the Supreme Court labeled this factor "the single most important element of fair use" and it has indeed enjoyed some level of primacy in fair use analyses ever since. Yet the Supreme Court's more recent announcement in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc.17 that "all four factors are to be explored and the results weighed together in light of the purposes of copyright" has helped modulate this emphasis in interpretation. In evaluating the fourth factor courts often consider two kinds of harm to the potential market of the original work: First courts consider whether the use in question acts as a direct market substitute for the original work. In the judgement of the Supreme Court in Acuff-Rose Music they decisively stated that "when a commercial use amounts to mere duplication of the entirety of the original it clearly supersedes the object of the original and serves as a market replacement for it making it likely that cognizable market harm to the original will occur." In one instance a court ruled that this factor weighed against a defendant who had made unauthorized movie trailers for video retailers since his trailers acted as direct substitutes for the copyright owner's official trailers.18 Second courts also consider whether potential market harm might exist beyond that of direct substitution such as in the potential existence of a licensing market. This consideration has weighed against commercial copy shops that make copies of articles in course-pack for college students when a market already existed for the licensing of course-pack copies.19 Courts recognize that certain kinds of market harm do not oppose fair use such as when a parody or negative review impairs the market of the original work. Copyright considerations may not shield a work against adverse criticism. Fair use and professional communities Courts when deciding fair use cases in addition to looking at context amount and value of the use also look to the standards and practices of the professional communities where the case comes from.citation needed Practical effect of fair use defense The practical effect of this law and the court decisions following it is that it is usually possible to quote from a copyrighted work in order to criticize or comment upon it teach students about it and possibly for other uses. Certain well-established uses cause few problems. A teacher who prints a few copies of a poem to illustrate a technique will have no problem on all four of the above factors (except possibly on amount and substantiality) but some cases are not so clear. All the factors are considered and balanced in each case: a book reviewer who quotes a paragraph as an example of the author's style will probably fall under fair use even though he may sell his review commercially. But a non-profit educational website that reproduces whole articles from technical magazines will probably be found to infringe if the publisher can demonstrate that the website affects the market for the magazine even though the website itself is non-commercial. Free Republic LLC owner of the political website freerepublic.com was found liable for copyright infringement in L.A. Times v. Free Republic for reproducing and archiving full-text versions of plaintiffs' news articles even though the judge found the website minimally commercial. She held that "while defendants' do not necessarily 'exploit' the articles for commercial gain their posting to the Free Republic site allows defendants and other visitors to avoid paying the 'customary price' charged for the works." The April 2000 opinion ruled concerning the four factors of fair use that 1) "defendants' use of plaintiffs' articles is minimally if at all transformative" 2) the factual content of the articles copied "weighs in favor of finding of fair use of the news articles by defendants in this case" though it didn't "provide strong support" 3) concerning the amount and substantiality prong "the wholesale copying of plaintiffs' articles weighs against the finding of fair use" and 4) the plaintiffs showed that they were trying to exploit the market for viewing their articles online and defendants didn't rebut their showing by proving an absence of usurpation harm to plaintiffs. Ultimately the court found "that the defendants may not assert a fair use defense to plaintiffs' copyright infringement claim." Fair use as a defense The Supreme Court of the United States described fair use as an affirmative defense in Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc..17 This means that in litigation on copyright infringement the defendant bears the burden of raising and proving that his use was "fair" and not an infringement. Thus fair use need not even be raised as a defense unless the plaintiff first shows (or the defendant concedes) a "prima facie" case of copyright infringement. If the work was not copyrightable the term had expired or the defendant's work borrowed only a small amount for instance then the plaintiff cannot make out a prima facie case of infringement and the defendant need not even raise the fair use defense. Because of the defendant's burden of proof some copyright owners frequently make claims of infringement even in circumstances where the fair use defense would likely succeed in hopes that the user will refrain from the use rather than spending resources in his defense. This type of lawsuit is part of a much larger problem in First Amendment law; see Strategic lawsuit against public participation. Because paying a royalty fee may be much less expensive than having a potential copyright suit threaten the publication of a completed work in which a publisher has invested significant resources many authors may seek a license even for uses that copyright law ostensibly permits without liability. The frequent argument over whether fair use is a "right" or a "defense"20 is generated by confusion over the use of the term "affirmative defense." "Affirmative defense" is simply a term of art from litigation reflecting the timing in which the defense is raised. It does not distinguish between "rights" and "defenses" and so it does not characterize the substance of the defendant's actions as "not a right but a defense." In response to perceived over-expansion of copyrights several electronic civil liberties and free expression organizations began in the 1990s to add fair use cases to their dockets and concerns. These include the Electronic Frontier Foundation ("EFF") the American Civil Liberties Union the National Coalition Against Censorship the American Library Association numerous clinical programs at law schools and others. The "Chilling Effects" archive was established in 2002 as a coalition of several law school clinics and the EFF to document the use of cease and desist letters. Most recently in 2006 Stanford University began an initiative called "The Fair Use Project" (FUP) to help artists particularly filmmakers fight lawsuits brought against them by large corporations. In 2009 fair use appeared as a defense in lawsuits against filesharing. Charles Nesson argued that file-sharing qualifies as fair use in his defense of alleged filesharer Joel Tenenbaum.21 Kiwi Camara defending alleged filesharer Jammie Thomas announced a similar defense.22 On September 2 2009 Israeli District court ruled out a detailed decision23 not allowing disclosure of "John Doe"'s details for the request of the FA Premier League based on several reasons but the most interesting were that "fair use" under the new Israeli law of 2007 (which is based on the US 4 factors test) is a right and not merely a defense. The court specifically states that the public may have base for a legal cause of action if its fair use right is infringed by the copyright holder. Other important decision in said judgment is the fact that the court finds streaming Internet filesharing site of live soccer games not infringing copyright as this use is fair use (mainly due to the importance of certain sport events and the public's right). The court analyzes the 4 factors and decides that due to such importance of sporting games (and other less important factors) such use is fair. The economic benefit of fair use A balanced copyright law provides an economic benefit to many high tech businesses such as search engines and software developers. Fair Use is also crucial to non-technology industries such as insurance legal services and newspaper publishers.24 On September 12 2007 the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA)24 a group representing companies including Google Inc. Microsoft Inc.25 Oracle Corporation Sun Microsystems Yahoo26 and other high tech companies released a study that found that Fair Use exceptions to US copyright laws were responsible for more than $4500 billion dollars in annual revenue for the United States economy representing one-sixth of the total U.S. GDP.24 The study was conducted using a methodology developed by the World Intellectual Property Organization.24 The study found that fair use dependent industries are directly responsible for more than 18% of U.S. economic growth and nearly 11 million American jobs.24 As the United States economy becomes increasingly knowledge-based the concept of fair use can no longer be discussed and legislated in the abstract. It is the very foundation of the digital age and a cornerstone of our economy said Ed Black President and CEO of CCIA.24 Much of the unprecedented economic growth of the past ten years can actually be credited to the doctrine of fair use as the Internet itself depends on the ability to use content in a limited and nonlicensed manner."24 Fair use and parody Producers or creators of parodies of a copyrighted work have been sued for infringement by the targets of their ridicule even though such use may be protected as fair use. These fair use cases distinguish between parodies (using a work in order to poke fun at or comment on the work itself) and satires (using a work to poke fun at or comment on something else). Courts have been more willing to grant fair use protections to parodies than to satires but the ultimate outcome in either circumstance will turn on the application of the four fair use factors. In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Inc.17 Supreme Court recognized parody as a fair use even when done for profit. Roy Orbison's publisher Acuff-Rose Music Inc. had sued 2 Live Crew in 1989 for their use of Orbison's "Oh Pretty Woman" in a mocking rap version with altered lyrics. The Supreme Court viewed 2 Live Crew's version as a ridiculing commentary on the earlier work and ruled that when the parody was itself the product rather than used for mere advertising commercial sale did not bar the defense. The Campbell court also distinguished parodies from satire which they described as a broader social critique not intrinsically tied to ridicule of a specific work and so not deserving of the same use exceptions as parody because the satirist's ideas are capable of expression without the use of the other particular work. A number of appellate decisions have recognized parody as a protected fair use including both the Second (Leibovitz v. Paramount Pictures Corp.) and Ninth Circuits (Mattel v. Walking Mountain Productions). Most recently in Suntrust v. Houghton Mifflin a suit was brought unsuccessfully against the publication of The Wind Done Gone which reused many of the characters and situations from Gone with the Wind but told the events from the point of view of the slaves rather than the slaveholders. The Eleventh Circuit applying Campbell recognized that The Wind Done Gone was a protected parody and vacated the district court's injunction against its publication. Fair use on the Internet A US court case in 2003 Kelly v. Arriba Soft Corporation provides and develops the relationship between thumbnails inline linking and fair use. In the lower District Court case on a motion for summary judgment Arriba Soft was found to have violated copyright without a fair use defense in the use of thumbnail pictures and inline linking from Kelly's website in Arriba's image search engine. That decision was appealed and contested by Internet rights activists such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation who argued that it is clearly covered under fair use. On appeal the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals found in favor of the defendant. In reaching its decision the court utilized the above-mentioned four-factor analysis. First it found the purpose of creating the thumbnail images as previews to be sufficiently transformative noting that they were not meant to be viewed at high resolution like the original artwork was. Second the fact that the photographs had already been published diminished the significance of their nature as creative works. Third although normally making a "full" replication of a copyrighted work may appear to violate copyright here it was found to be reasonable and necessary in light of the intended use. Lastly the court found that the market for the original photographs would not be substantially diminished by the creation of the thumbnails. To the contrary the thumbnail searches could increase exposure of the originals. In looking at all these factors as a whole the court found that the thumbnails were fair use and remanded the case to the lower court for trial after issuing a revised opinion on July 7 2003. The remaining issues were resolved with a default judgment after Arriba Soft had experienced significant financial problems and failed to reach a negotiated settlement. In August 2008 U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel of San Jose California ruled that copyright holders cannot order a deletion of an online file without determining whether that posting reflected "fair use" of the copyrighted material. The case involved Stephanie Lenz a writer and editor from Gallitzin Pennsylvania who made a home video of her 13-month-old son dancing to Prince's song Let's Go Crazy and posted the video on YouTube. Four months later Universal Music the owner of the copyright to the song ordered YouTube to remove the video enforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lenz notified YouTube immediately that her video was within the scope of fair use and demanded that it be restored. YouTube complied after six weeks not two weeks as required by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Lenz then sued Universal Music in California for her legal costs claiming the music company had acted in bad faith by ordering removal of a video that represented fair-use of the song.27 Common misunderstandings Fair use is commonly misunderstood because of its deliberate ambiguity. Here are some of the more common misunderstandings with explanations of why they are wrong: Any use that seems fair is fair use. In the law the term fair use has a specific meaning that only partly overlaps the plain-English meaning of the words. While judges have much leeway in deciding how to apply fair use guidelines not every use that is commonly considered "fair" counts as fair use under the law. Fair use interpretations are unique and limited. Fair use is decided on a case by case basis on the entirety of circumstances. The same act done by different means or for a different purpose can gain or lose fair use status. Even repeating an identical act at a different time can make a difference due to changing social technological or other surrounding circumstances.14citation needed If it's not fair use it's copyright infringement. Fair use is only one of many limitations exceptions and defenses to copyright infringement. For instance the Audio Home Recording Act establishes that it is legal in some circumstances to make copies of audio recordings for non-commercial personal use.28 It's copyrighted so it can't be fair use. On the contrary fair use applies only to copyrighted works describing conditions under which copyrighted material may be used without permission. If a work is not copyrighted fair use does not come into play since public-domain works can be used for any purpose without violating copyright law. Note: In some countries (including the United States of America) the mere creation of a work establishes copyright over it and there is no legal requirement to register or declare copyright ownership29 Acknowledgment of the source makes a use fair. Giving the name of the photographer or author may help but it is not sufficient on its own. While plagiarism and copyright violation are related matters-both can at times involve failure to properly credit sources-they are not identical. Plagiarismusing someone's words ideas images etc. without acknowledgmentis a matter of professional ethics. Copyright is a matter of law and protects exact expression not ideas. One can plagiarize even a work that is not protected by copyright such as trying to pass off a line from Shakespeare as one's own. On the other hand citing sources generally prevents accusations of plagiarism but is not a sufficient defense against copyright violations. For example reprinting a copyrighted book without permission while citing the original author would be copyright infringement but not plagiarism.citation needed Noncommercial use is invariably fair. Not true though a judge may take the profit motive or lack thereof into account. In L.A. Times v. Free Republic the court found that the noncommercial use of L.A. Times content by the Free Republic Web site was in fact not fair use since it allowed the public to obtain material at no cost that they would otherwise pay for. Strict adherence to fair use protects you from being sued. Fair use is an affirmative defense against an infringement suit; it does not restrain anyone from suing. The copyright holder may legitimately disagree that a given use is fair and they have the right to have the matter decided by a court. Thus fair use does not guarantee that a lawsuit will be prevented. The lack of a copyright notice means the work is public domain. Not usually true. United States law in effect since March 1 1989 has made copyright the default for newly created works. For a recent work to be in the public domain the author must specifically opt-out of copyright. For works produced between January 1 1923 and March 1 1989 copyright notice is required; however registration was not required30 and between January 1 1978 and March 1 1989 lack of notice is not necessarily determinative if attempts were made immediately to correct the lack of notice. Any American works that did not have formal registration or notice fell into the Public Domain if registration was not made in a timely fashion. For international works the situation is even more complex. International authors who failed to provide copyright notice or register with the U.S. copyright office are given additional contemporary remedies that may restore American copyright protection given certain conditions. International authors/corporations who fail to meet these remedies forfeit their copyright. An example of a company who failed to prove copyright was Roland Corporation and their claimed copyright on the sounds contained in their MT-32 synthesizer. It's okay to quote up to 300 words. The 300-word limit is reported to be an unofficial agreement now long obsolete among permissions editors in the New York publishing houses: "I'll let you copy 300 words from our books if you let us copy 300 words from yours." It runs counter to the substantiality standard. As explained above the substantiality of the copying is more important than the actual amount. For instance copying a complete short poem is more substantial than copying a random paragraph of a novel; copying an 8.511-inch photo is more substantial than copying a square foot of an 810-foot painting. In 1985 the U.S. Supreme Court held that a news article's quotation of approximately 300 words from former President Gerald Ford's 200000 word memoir was sufficient to constitute an infringement of the exclusive publication right in the work.31 You can deny fair use by including a disclaimer. Fair use is a right granted to the public on all copyrighted work. Fair use rights take precedence over the author's interest. Thus the copyright holder cannot use a non-binding disclaimer or notification to revoke the right of fair use on works.citation needed However binding agreements such as contracts or license agreements may take precedence over fair use rights.32 If you're copying an entire work it's not fair use. While copying an entire work may make it harder to justify the amount and substantiality test it does not make it impossible that a use is fair use. For instance in the Betamax case it was ruled that copying a complete television show for time-shifting purposes is fair use. If you're selling for profit it's not fair use. While commercial copying for profit work may make it harder to qualify as fair use it does not make it impossible. For instance in the 2 Live CrewOh Pretty Woman case it was ruled that commercial parody can be fair use. Influence internationally While many other countries recognize similar exceptions to copyright only the United States and Israel fully recognize the concept of fair use.33 While influential in some quarters other countries often have drastically different fair use criteria to the US and in some countries there is little or no fair use defense available. Even within Europe rules vary greatly between countries. Some countries have the concept of fair dealing instead of fair use. However many countries have some reference to an exemption for educational use although the extent of this exemption may vary widely.34 Fair dealing in Canada The Copyright Act establishes fair dealing in Canada which allows specific exceptions to copyright protection. The open-ended concept of fair use is not observed in Canadian law. In 1985 the Sub-Committee on the Revision of Copyright rejected replacing fair dealing with an open-ended system and in 1986 the Canadian government agreed that the present fair dealing provisions should not be replaced by the substantially wider fair use concept.35 CCH Canadian Ltd. v. Law Society of Upper Canada 2004 1 S.C.R. 339 2004 SCC 13 is the landmark Supreme Court of Canada case that establishes the bounds of fair dealing in Canadian copyright law. The Law Society of Upper Canada was sued for copyright infringement for providing photocopy services to researchers. The Court unanimously held that the Law Society's practice fell within the bounds of fair dealing. Israel In November 2007 Israel passed a new Copyright Law that included a US style fair use exception. The law which took effect in May 2008 permits the fair use of copyrighted works for purposes such as private study research criticism review news reporting quotation or instruction or testing by an educational institution.36 The law sets up four factors similar to those of section 107 under American law to determine whether a use is fair use. See also "Fair use as a defense" above and the Fapl v. Ploni decision.2337 South Korea The Korean Copyright Act newly amended in 2009 in articles 2338 of section 4-2 (Limitation to the author's property rights) defines the exceptional use of copyrighted material without permission from copyright holders. However a broad concept of fair use as in the above countries still does not exist in the Korean Copyright Act. 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VIDEO: Perk Valley Community Fair returns
The 22nd annual Perkiomen Valley Community Fair in Schwenksville took place June 7 to June 11. The annual fair was held at the Schwenksville Rotary Recreation Fields. Activities included amusement rides, games for all ages, food and drink, nightly entertainment and fireworks on Friday night. Highlighting this year’s fair was a wine tasting event with Blue Mountain Vineyards on June 10.

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