Word: copyright
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...encourage online music services to improve playlist-publishing capabilities and to solidify links to other consumer-to-consumer music-sharing sites in order to attract more traffic to their Web pages. Slater, an avid music fan who spends much of his free time attending concerts, began studying internet and copyright issues because he has a genuine love for music. “The struggle over music file sharing has unfortunately turned ‘sharing’ into a bad word,” Slater said in a Berkman Center press release. “Whatever one thinks of illegal...
...Dinosaur Jr., the issue is much more complicated; few bands have as tumultuous a history. The band was founded in 1983 in Amherst, MA. J Mascis, Lou Barlow, and Emmett Patrick Murphy (“Murph”) came together as Dinosaur, adopting junior status later due to copyright issues. J and Lou, who had recently broken up their hardcore band Deep Wound, picked up Murph as a drummer, allowing J to emerge from behind the drum kit and to take up lead guitar and vocals. J’s professed love for Neil Young and accomplished songwriting almost single...
According to Goldenberg, copyright rests “control...firmly in the hands of the authors and publishers.” Copyright law, fortunately, does not work this way. Copyright gives some exclusive rights to authors, but it also includes various exceptions to authors’ control, including fair use. Fair uses do not require permission...
Goldenberg is thus dead wrong when he says that Google Print necessarily takes control away from authors and “compromises the spirit...of copyright.” If Google’s use is fair, the authors have no such control to begin with, and fair use is entirely consonant with copyright’s purpose. Google’s use is piracy only in the sense that fair use quoting is piracy. In fact, Google does not even have to provide an opt-out if its use is fair...
Certainly, reasonable people can disagree about whether Google’s copying is fair use. Google’s service might impair copyright holders’ ability to license and get paid for this use, but it also likely promotes book sales and will increase the public’s access to creative works. Google’s service itself is a form of creativity that we might want to protect...