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How to #Occupy the News with Fair Use
By Mark A. McCutcheon 5 November 2011 @ 9:37pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq2ELwg5BwM
YES. It's great to see citizens flexing their copyright rights, especially in response to so deserving a purveyor of Big Content as the persistently "blind and dumb" corporate media.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aq2ELwg5BwM
Fair use is different than fair dealing, mind. But provisions more like US fair use are coming to Canada in Bill C-11, with clear and generous fair dealing allowances for everyday users as well as educators.
Now if only these allowances weren't expected DOA, on account of the TPM protections bundled with them.
Mark A. McCutcheon
Professor of Literary Studies & Chair of Centre for Humanities, Athabasca U
