Copyright law: Poorly defined’ fair use’ argument spawns court action
donal brown
September 30, 2010
Lawyers are getting lots of work interpreting ‘fair use” from filmmakers, artists and writers who want to pull something from another person’s work. -db Variety Commentary September 24, 2010 By Ted Johnson Hollywood is united in standing up to the proliferation of piracy, but there’s an area of copyright law that leaves the industry perpetually perplexed. It’s the concept of “fair use,” the protection from infringement claims for certain unauthorized uses of copyrighted material, whether