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December 17, 2007

Educational fair use today

The Association of Research Libraries has released a new paper on educational fair use.

Jonathan Band offers a reflection on fair use, focusing on three recent fair use decisions:

This paper will not offer a comprehensive analysis of the current state of fair use in the educational context. Instead, it will discuss three recent fair use decisions by federal circuit courts. These decisions demonstrate that fair use pessimism, especially in the educational context, is ill founded. In all three cases, the courts found commercial uses to be fair. In two of the three cases, the defendants copied several of the plaintiffs' works in their entirety, and only changed them by reducing them in size.

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