27.07.2013 - 10:28 [ Electronic Frontier Foundation ]

„Fair Use Creep,“ and Other Copyright Bogeymen, Appear in Congress

The Congressional subcommittee that addresses copyright heard testimony today from five witnesses about the role of „the copyright sector“ in the U.S. economy. As we described yesterday, there were some glaring omissions in the witness list: no representatives of the public interest, no librarians or archivists, none of the innumerable creators who depend on fair use or a balanced copyright regime. The resulting testimony and question-and-answer session were about what you‘d expect from a panel made up of the executive director of a copyright expansion group and four representatives from the content industry.