{"id":204,"date":"2016-02-23T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/copyrightosc\/?p=204"},"modified":"2016-02-23T16:09:24","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T16:09:24","slug":"fair-use-week-2016-day-two-with-guest-expert-krista-cox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/copyrightosc\/2016\/02\/23\/fair-use-week-2016-day-two-with-guest-expert-krista-cox\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Use Week 2016: Day Two With Guest Expert Krista Cox"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thankful for Fair Use<\/strong><\/h2>\n

by Krista Cox<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fair use is a critical right in U.S. copyright law, permitting the use of copyrighted material without permission from the rightholder under certain circumstances. It has been called the \u201csafety valve\u201d of U.S. copyright law, responsive to change and able to accommodate new technologies and developments. Amending copyright law is not an easy task; the 1976 Copyright Act took twenty years<\/em> to enact (and was where the fair use doctrine was officially codified, though it was certainly not a new doctrine). Fair use, as a broad and flexible doctrine, therefore allows copyright law to adapt to the changing environment and technologies and preserve the important balance in the law without requiring constant legislative attention.<\/p>\n

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Here are just some of the ways we rely on fair use each day in ways that were inconceivable when the doctrine was codified by the 1976 act, much less in 1841 when Folsom v. March<\/a><\/em> (which forms the basis of the fair use doctrine<\/a>) was decided:<\/p>\n