Thus ends the 12th Annual Fair Use Week, and after the Warhol decision, it must be asked whether the parties who invented this holy week of the copyleft intend to continue the farce much longer. As a refresher, the fair use doctrine has been part of the U.S. Copyright Act since 1976 and a subject of judge-made law since at ...
Episode Contents 58:12 – Overview of the American Law Institute and Restatements of Law 06:13 – Restatements have never addressed areas of primarily statutory law. 08:53 – Development of the 1976 Copyright Act 15:17 – “Why we are not opposed to the idea of a Restatement.” 25:09 – Criticism of the project’s lack of transparency. 31:28 – Criticism of the ...
