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Transformative Teaching And Educational Fair Use After Georgia State, Brandon C. Butler
Transformative Teaching And Educational Fair Use After Georgia State, Brandon C. Butler
Brandon C. Butler
The Supreme Court has said that copyright’s fair use doctrine is a “First Amendment safety valve” because it ensures that certain crucial cultural activities are not unduly burdened by copyright. While many such activities (criticism, commentary, parody) have benefited from the courts’ increased attention to first amendment values, one such activity, education, has been mired for years in a minimalist, market-based vision of fair use that is largely out of touch with mainstream fair use jurisprudence. The latest installment in the history of educational fair use, the 11th Circuit’s opinion in the Georgia State e-reserves case, may be the last …
Dissolving Innovation In Meltwater: A Misguided Paradigm For Online Search, Bill D. Herman
Dissolving Innovation In Meltwater: A Misguided Paradigm For Online Search, Bill D. Herman
Bill D. Herman
With the exponential increases in online information, internet search engines have helped fill a substantial and growing need for the capacity to sort through and manage data. News outlets in general and newspapers in particular are among the most socially important sources of online content being indexed, and these outlets are faring rather poorly in the internet economy. Both of these sectors are thus in a precarious, potentially conflicted relationship, with copyright law serving as the primary legal basis for mediating the relationship. A 2013 decision, Associated Press v. Meltwater, is one recent attempt to mediate this relationship. In …