“Fair Use” when it comes to copyrighted works gets tossed around by so many people often trying to hide behind it so as to not have to pay for use when they should, or because they were too lazy to find the owner (or, to be fair, couldn’t, and decided to do it anyway.) Public Knowledge held the first World’s Fair Use Day back in January (more here) and PC World (here) cited participants of that event as having said “…U.S. copyright law should be updated to better reflect the changing ways that mashup artists and other new content creators use existing works,” seemingly suggesting as a premise that, somehow, these mash-up artists had the right to create derivative works from a copyrighted work without the originating creators’ permission.
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