Program on Copyright Law
The Grand Rapids Legal News provides a nice recap of the Program on Copyright Law and Fair Use for Creative Artists that I participated in last Saturday at Grand Valley State. From the article:
Julie Ahrens of the Stanford Fair Use Project, speaking to a small group of attorneys gathered April 3 in Grand Rapids, quoted Lawrence Lessig’s wry observation: “‘Fair use’ in America is the right to hire a lawyer.”
The remark may be humorous, but it is also an accurate comment on what legitimately results from the fair use language.
The doctrine is written in a way that lends to each individual case having to be decided by a judge.Ahrens was at Grand Valley State University’s DeVos Center as part of a “Copyright Basics and Fair Use” conference held by the ACES (Arts, Communications, Entertainment and Sports) Section of the State Bar, led by Matthew Bower of Safford and Baker in Bloomfield Hills. It was co-sponsored by the Right to Write Foundation, a clearinghouse on fair use law and a fund to help artists defend fair use cases which operates out of Muskegon.
You can read the whole article here.
–Matt
