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A State Law Approach To Preserving Fair Use In Academic Libraries, David Hansen
A State Law Approach To Preserving Fair Use In Academic Libraries, David Hansen
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Every year academic libraries spend millions of dollars to provide their users access to copyrighted works. Much of that money goes not toward purchasing physical copies of books or journals, but toward licensing electronic content from publishers. In those electronic license agreements, the default rules for how users interact with copyrighted content is often altered, and academic library users are deprived of basic rights—especially rights such as fair use—which are granted under federal copyright law. The literature is flush with discussion of the misuse of private contracts to alter the rights granted by Congress in copyright’s statutory scheme. As a …