Fair use: Affirmative defense, or right?

A great piece by a paralegal, looking closely at fair use rights as an appetizer to a discussion on DRM.

BTW, keep an eye on Golan v Holder, which will take a good hard look at the URAA agreements which brought back into US copyright millions of works by foreign authors. I remember going to many seminars and talks about how it was being implemented at the time--what a mess.

Documentary filmakers win exception to DMCA

About damn time. Hopefully this will open up the DMCA even more--a more user-restrictive copyright document would be hard to find.

Theft by media

Looks like neither the NY Times nor Politico could bother to wait until Rolling Stone came out with their Afghanistan story.

As noted in the comments to that story, this is incredibly unethical.

WB sued for pirating anti-pirating technology

Irony: Thy Name is Warner Bros.

NFL is denied broad anti-trust exemption

Good decision by SCOTUS, which allows other intellectual property users to compete.

Know your fair use!

Protecting yourself against youtube takedowns

AP claiming links are not "fair use"

Someone needs to sit down with the Associated Press. Somehow they have it in their head that someone linking to an AP article and using their headline is not fair use.

Putting aside the point that most newspapers who run AP articles are free to change their headlines (and many do), they must not realize that short titles, phrases, etc. are not covered under the Copyright Act.