Re: Fair Use litigatable?

On Wed, 24 May 2000, Ewan Kirk <ewan.j.kirk[_at_]solent.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> In theory, yes, I suppose you could assert your fair use rights
> in court, but as most people will probably not want to go through
> the protracted legal process just for what may be a few lines of
> text for a quote, the practical effect is that digital rights
> management 'padlocks' have the potential to kill fair use stone
> dead.

Does Fair Use imply a right to browse?
Don't all the uses of a work that are considered fair assume that the work has first been legally acquired? If so, how then do DRM padlocks kill Fair Use stone dead?

 -Bernard Rous <rous[_at_]hq.acm.org> Received on Thu May 25 2000 - 11:58:25 GMT