Comments on: Free Speech, Copyright, and Fair Use: We can express ourselves any way we want, even in ways that “steal” your own forms of expression, unless there’s a good reason to stop us.

By: Ruling Imagination: Law and Creativity » Blog Archive » Is peer-to-peer music downloading fair use? I doubt it.

Tue, 19 May 2009 17:13:07 +0000

[...] in the absence of proof of actual economic harm. If that is the basis of his argument for fair use, at least it makes some sense (even if it seems unlikely to [...]

By: Steve R.

Steve R. — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 15:08:02 +0000

An aspect of copyright that has not been adequately discussed is that those who assert copyright are consistently pushing for an expansion of copyright. Those who believe that copyright law has become too onerous, need to take the offensive by pointing out the ever increasing “land grab” of those who advocate a strong copyright. It is seldom mentioned that the copyright holders as actually “stealing” from the consumer when they diminish the consumers property right to the enjoyment of the content.

By: Copyright And The First Amendment | Tech News Direct

[...] note that parts of copyright law were unconstitutional due to the First Amendment. Law professor Peter Friedman points us to the latest of many recent treatises on the subject, by Christina Bohannan, entitled [...]