{"id":4662,"date":"2004-01-16T16:58:58","date_gmt":"2004-01-16T20:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/2004\/01\/16\/fair-use-and-haiku\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T15:00:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T19:00:31","slug":"fair-use-and-haiku","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/16\/fair-use-and-haiku\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Use and Haiku"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name=\"a524\"><\/a><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/crows.gif\" alt=\"crows\" \/> &#8220;Common wisdom&#8221; about haiku is often <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/stories\/storyReader$369\">incorrect<\/a>.\u00a0 Unfortunately, that appears to hold true in the realm of copyright law and\u00a0its Fair Use Doctrine, as applied to haiku poetry.\u00a0\u00a0 Because haiku are such short poems, many commentators have suggested that copying <em>any<\/em> part of a haiku (and especially all or most of one) falls outside of Fair Use protection.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Since such a belief clearly\u00a0deters scholarship and criticism of\u00a0haiku, and seems foolish as a matter of public policy, I decided to delve into the subject\u00a0to see if the conclusion is valid. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\">Despite the skeptics, the law usually makes sense, when its complexities are explored and understood.\u00a0 Therefore,\u00a0I was not surprised by my basic finding: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\">There is no blanket rule against quoting part or all of a haiku.\u00a0 Context is everything.\u00a0 The Fair Use Doctrine can give significant protection to scholarship or criticism\u00a0that requires the use of all or a significant portion of an individual\u00a0haiku in order to effectively accomplish its Sec. 107 purposes. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: Arial;font-size: x-small\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/01\/16\/haiku-and-the-fair-use-doctrine\/\">this essay<\/a>, I\u00a0set out my understanding of the law and my reasoning, using a study of the &#8220;deja-ku&#8221; phenomenon (the similarity of many haiku\u00a0to each other) as an example. 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