Amsterdam Law Forum (Dec 2009)
Expanding the Utility of Fair Use in Copyright: the Best Practices Model
Abstract
<span style="font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: ";Garamond";,";serif";; mso-fareast-font-family: ";Arial Unicode MS";; mso-bidi-font-family: ";Times New Roman";; mso-font-kerning: .5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: #00FF; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US">Being able to access copyrighted material is fundamental to freedom of expression. This is ever more acutely obvious in a digital environment, in which exchange of quoted and often remixed copyrighted material is a daily feature of media use and social networking. But it is a basic right that requires better public education to balance the censorship effects of monopoly ownership rights.</span>
