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  • Copyright lawyers have said Google's use of reviews from other sites could potentially be protected under the so-called fair-use doctrine, which Google has cited as a reason it can excerpt news articles in its Google News service.

    Google Bows to Web Rivals Amir Efrati 2011

  • Copyright lawyers have said Google's use of reviews from other sites could potentially be protected under the so-called fair-use doctrine, which Google has cited as a reason it can excerpt news articles in its Google News service.

    WSJ.com: What's News US 2011

  • Copyright lawyers have said Google's use of reviews from other sites could potentially be protected under the so-called fair-use doctrine, which Google has cited as a reason it can excerpt news articles in its Google News service.

    unknown title 2011

  • Glenn says that by settling, Real blew an opportunity to test specific fair-use exemptions to copyright law.

    TechNerd on the RealNetworks Settlement « PubliCola 2010

  • If you sell the CD you're supposed to delete the fair-use copies you made. (snort) Yeah, everyone does that.

    Advisor: What should I do with my high school CD collection? Boing Boing 2010

  • We're still working out the "fair-use" issue regarding a few of the quotes in The Red Tree.

    "Pull something good from the ashes..." greygirlbeast 2009

  • I spent all this morning figuring out fair-use and public-domain questions concerning three quotes used in The Red Tree.

    "The pitying smirk, the argument runs like clockwork." ellen_datlow 2009

  • Courts in Nevada are sorting out the complexities of whether a website's copying of a newspaper article -- even if it's used in its entirety and deprives a newspaper of potential revenue -- can be justified under "fair-use" doctrine.

    Jason Salzman: Ripping Off Newspaper Websites Shortchanges Democracy Jason Salzman 2011

  • I did another draft of the particularly tedious "fair-use" and "public-domain" letter for Penguin, regarding many quotations that appear The Red Tree, adding the relevant information on Hesiod, Seneca the Younger, and Goethe.

    "In pitch dark, I go walking in your landscape." greygirlbeast 2009

  • Like most Kindle releases, the Singles appear to come locked with Amazon's proprietary digital-rights-management software, which makes them unreadable outside its Kindle hardware and software and denies most of the fair-use rights you'd have with a physical publication.

    So many books, so little time? Amazon now selling shorter prose as Kindle Singles Rob Pegoraro 2011

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