Electronic Frontier Foundation promotes this week as
Copyright Week, with these goals”:
Maintaining a robust public domain; “You Bought It, You Own It” (the
copy – First Sale doctrine); Fair Use; and Transparency.
Corynne McSherry has an article, “Fair Use Economics:How Fair Use Makes Innovation Possible and Profitable”. She pays particular attention to concepts
like Google Book Project, where digitization of books is predicated on enabling
Fair Use by other people. She also links
to a case “Fox v. TvEyes”, where Fox News sued a company “digitizing” its news
reports for others to use.
It’s notable that Author’s Guild has opposed Google’s
claims, on its worldview that some people need to make a living off their
writing so they need to protect the use of it forever. Author’s Guild is interesting in that, at
least in the past, it has limited membership to people who really get advances
for what is publishes.
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