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You'd like to move the tracks you bought from Rhapsody to a personal stereo like Apple's iPod but the copy protection prevents you. Creating or using the software necessary to make the switch could put you behind bars. You want to distribute your band's music but the P2P system that's revolutionized your ability to reach listeners is being sued out of existence a company claiming to own a patent to all streaming media technology is demanding licensing fees and record labels are breathing down your neck over the samples you've looped. You want to criticize Vivendi Universal on your website or blog but the plug's been pulled on your "vivendisucks" domain name because of its unflattering reference to the company's trademark. EFF fights to preserve balance and ensure that the Internet and digital technologies continue to empower you as a consumer creator innovator scholar and citizen.

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Fair use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fair use is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work.

U.S. Copyright Office - Fair Use

One of the rights accorded to the owner of copyright is the right to reproduce or to authorize others to reproduce the work in copies or phonorecords.

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Copyright & Fair Use - Summaries of Fair Use Cases

In 2008, a district court ruled that prior to requesting a takedown notice, a copyright owner must consider the likelihood of a claim of fair use. In that case, Universal Music issued a takedown notice for a video of a child dancing to the song, “Let’s Go Crazy,” by Prince. The owner of the video claimed that since Universal didn’t consider the issue of fair use, Universal could have not had a “good faith belief” they were entitled to a takedown. Faced with this novel issue a district court agreed that the failure to consider fair use when sending a DMCA notice could give rise to a claim of failing to act in good faith. (Lenz v.

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