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<blockquote data-quote="roguerouge" data-source="post: 4657559" data-attributes="member: 13855">Since people are being all snippy and saying things like &quot;You don't know the law! *SNAP*&quot; I thought I'd post a link to a beginner's understanding of a relevant US law, fair use: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_States_laws" target="_blank">Fair use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</a>Copyright law was not designed to give owners a monopoly on their work. It was designed to &quot;promote the progress of the sciences and the useful arts.&quot; In doing so, the US gave creators and inventors a limited control over the use of the work. In addition, the burden of proof is on the copyright holder to prove harms, as shown in the case of Sony v. Universal, and it is the single most important prong of the fair use test. Finally, fair use exceptions should be encouraged according to corporations like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, etc.: &quot;Fair Use exceptions to US copyright laws were responsible for more than $4,500 Billion dollars in annual revenue for the United States economy representing one-sixth of the total U.S. GDP.... fair use dependent industries are directly responsible for more than 18% of U.S. economic growth and nearly 11 million American jobs.&quot; So, perhaps we can start to consider those people who err on the side of permissiveness as NOT being thieves and have a rational conversation, hmm?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roguerouge, post: 4657559, member: 13855"] Since people are being all snippy and saying things like "You don't know the law! *SNAP*" I thought I'd post a link to a beginner's understanding of a relevant US law, fair use: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use#Fair_use_under_United_States_laws]Fair use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url] Copyright law was not designed to give owners a monopoly on their work. It was designed to "promote the progress of the sciences and the useful arts." In doing so, the US gave creators and inventors a limited control over the use of the work. In addition, the burden of proof is on the copyright holder to prove harms, as shown in the case of Sony v. Universal, and it is the single most important prong of the fair use test. Finally, fair use exceptions should be encouraged according to corporations like Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, etc.: "Fair Use exceptions to US copyright laws were responsible for more than $4,500 Billion dollars in annual revenue for the United States economy representing one-sixth of the total U.S. GDP.... fair use dependent industries are directly responsible for more than 18% of U.S. economic growth and nearly 11 million American jobs." So, perhaps we can start to consider those people who err on the side of permissiveness as NOT being thieves and have a rational conversation, hmm? [/QUOTE]

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