NPR’s Weekend Edition: Lincoln Bandlow on the Blurring of Lines Between Fair Use and Copyright Theft
3/26/2010
Every time you listen to your iPod, use your TiVo or watch Jon Stewart on TV, you're participating in something called "fair use."
It's the idea that artists, filmmakers, reporters and commentators have the right to take copyrighted material without permission or payment, as long as they're using those materials to make something new.
While Hollywood studios and the recording industry have spent millions of dollars making their position on copyright infringement abundantly clear, fair use advocates have a tougher time getting their message across. Read more ...
