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The problem with copyright: fair use

Posted on April 5th, 2021 at 01:04 Max Stul Oppenheimer Comment on the AskWoody Lounge

LEGAL BRIEF

By Max Stul Oppenheimer, Esq.

All might be fair in love and war, but not in copyright

If you think about copyrights for a moment, it might occur to you that they are unconstitutional. After all, the First Amendment says that Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Yet there it is, in Title 17 of the U.S. Code: a law saying that Congress has given copyright owners the power to stop others from copying or publicly performing their copyrighted words.

Read the full story in the AskWoody Plus Newsletter 18.12.0 (2021-04-05).

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