Re: droit de suite

On Wed, 05 Apr 2000, Marty Hayes <9ball[_at_]hostsite.net> wrote in part:
>
> As I understand copyright law, the fair use doctrine already permits
> copying without permission for the purpose of news reporting
> regardless of whether the copyright holder is a human or an
> organization"

Not so fast. Section 107 of the Copyright Act identifies "news reporting" as one of a non-exclusive list of six purposes for which a use might be found fair ... but the question of whether the use IS fair or not rests on the application of the four factors that follow, and is very fact-specific. It is emphatically not correct to assume that merely because the purpose of the use is "news reporting" the use is a priori fai.

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