Fair Use and Free Inquiry: Copyright Law and the New Media (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780893914844)

This volume provides thorough coverage of some troublesome and seldom clarified issues that affect scholars who deal with nonprint media. When is it legitimate in teaching or publishing to quote a visual image from television, film or printed graphics? To quote the lines from a musical lyric? Why has the long tradition of fair use for printed material, which sanctions quoting without permission, been so slow in its extension to other media? How can scholars and publishers prudently behave in an area where media corporations are uncooperative or belligerent in dealing with requests to document arguments through the inclusion of copyrighted materials? This book offers a forum where scholars, lawyers, archivists, and federal administrators of copyright law express informed viewpoints about these issues.

Author: John Shelton Lawerence,Bernard Timberg,John Shelton Lawrence
ISBN-10: 0893914843
ISBN-13: 9780893914844
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1989
Pages: 436
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.73lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d