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Copyright, Fair Use And Motion Pictures, Peter Jaszi
Copyright, Fair Use And Motion Pictures, Peter Jaszi
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Within copyright law, the tension between contemporary creators' needs for access to preexisting material, on the one hand, and the imperatives of copyright ownership, on the other, are mediated primarily by the so-called "fair use" doctrine. The application of this venerable legal concept, which exempts some substantial takings of protected content from infringement liability, is the subject of this essay.