Word: copyrighting
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...farmhouse on the other end of town"). The legal principle that permits us to quote or closely imitate Waller's writing is "fair use," which carves out a small free-fire zone within which critics and parodists get a commonsensical exemption from the laws against copyright infringement. To quote, in other words, is not to infringe. Isn't America's free marketplace of ideas glorious...
...Copyright 1993 Time Inc. All rights reserved...
...Copyright law requires that performers receivepermission and pay royalties when substantiallyrewriting a protected song, unless the new versionrepresents a "fair...
Each side claimed to be protecting the cause ofcreativity and free expression. Rosdeitcher saidfederal copyright law is intended to protect thecreativity of the original song-writer...
...criticize society in many ways,"Justice Antonin Scalia said during the arguments,adding that a copyright owner might ask, "Why doyou have to take my tune...