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Educational Fair Use In Copyright: Reclaiming The Right To Photocopy Freely, Ann Bartow Dec 1997

Educational Fair Use In Copyright: Reclaiming The Right To Photocopy Freely, Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow

Copyright owners who are affirmatively engaged in diminishing the scope of educational fair use are overwhelmingly publishers, rather than authors. These publishers attack educational fair use in several different, somewhat internally inconsistent ways. First, they argue that fair use reduces the profitability of their publications, and thereby reduces monetary incentives to undertake the publication of new works. In this way they characterize educational fair use as a threat to the creation and dissemination of future works of scholarship, rather than an escape valve through which current knowledge embodied in prohibitively expensive books and periodicals can leak to the impoverished. Publishers …


My Career As A Chocolatier, Ann Bartow Dec 1997

My Career As A Chocolatier, Ann Bartow

Ann Bartow

This essay is a first-hand account of experience in a world that many in the legal profession have never glimpsed. Not the typical law journal fare, it neither espouses nor condemns a legal position. Although this piece provides commentary on employment law issues facing factory workers, it also attempts to provide insight into the working conditions of many American women.