Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
“Reclaiming Fair Use will be an important and widely read book that scholars of copyright law will find a ‘must have’ for their bookshelves. It is a sound interpretation of the law and offers useful guidance to the creative community that goes beyond what some of the most ideological books about copyright tend to say.”
Library Journal
“Here, [Aufderheide and Jaszi] offer sound advice on users' rights to copyrighted material in their survey of fair use, a "safety valve" built into copyright law. They remind readers that copyright was created to benefit the public, not to enrich producers. . . . This is a useful work—thoughtful, clear, and generally free of legal jargon—and deserves to be read by scholars, bloggers, documentarians, journalists, and everyone else, since we are all touched daily by copyrights.”
PsycCRITIQUES
“Engaging and informative. . . . Reclaiming Fair Use is a must read for all academics who are involved in creating creative content based upon the work of others as well as in individual research. It will also be helpful for those who are in creative environments outside of academia.”
Times Higher Education
“Reclaiming Fair Use is clear, accessible and pithy and will be particularly helpful for creative artists, copyright users and legal neophytes.”
Lewis Hyde, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing, Kenyon College
“The Supreme Court has told us that fair use is one of the ‘traditional safeguards’ of the First Amendment. As this book makes abundantly clear, nobody has done better work making sure that safeguard is actually effective than Aufderheide and Jaszi. The day we have a First Amendment Hall of Fame, their names should be there engraved in stone.”
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 The Culture of Fear and Doubt, and How to Leave It
2 Long and Strong Copyright: Why Fair Use Is So Important
3 The Decline and Rise of Fair Use: The Back-Room Story
4 The Decline and Rise of Fair Use: The Public Campaigns
5 Fair Use Resurgent
6 Fair Use in the Courtroom: How Judges Think Now
7 Documentary Filmmakers: Pioneering Best Practices
8 Codes of Best Practices Catch On
9 How to Fair Use
10 A Note on the International Environment
Appendix A. Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use
Appendix B. A Template for a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use
Appendix C. Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
Appendix D. Myths and Realities about Fair Use
Appendix E. Answers to Fair Use: You Be the Judge
Reference List
Index
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