Interesting that Jane Hutchison comment on the almost year old article the day before deg posted it. Correlated?
The us vs. them language seems natural to me in an article devoted to exploiting fair use to the fullest. Overall seemed on target to me. Claire Stewart, member of the working group and fellow Evanstonian, coauthored Intellectual Property Law & Interactive Media, Free For A Fee if you want to further devote your life to copyright law. Robert A. Norris Managing Director Film Ideas, Inc. Phone: (847) 419-0255 Email: [email protected] Web: www.filmideas.com On May 2, 2012, at 8:40 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > > From: Dennis Doros <[email protected]> > Date: May 2, 2012 8:40:48 PM CDT > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [Videolib] Fair use and video document > Reply-To: [email protected] > > > Well, deg's right that it'll probably cause some consternation among "my" > people -- it's definitely inflammatory in its descriptions of distributors > and the us versus them rhetoric and who "owns" the copyright law. I do > appreciate the line near the end "Not a single librarian revealed herself as > being either cavalier about the law or dismissive of the market" and know it > to be the case among most but it would be nice to have some of the > discussions we've had here about the balancing the needs of education versus > the sustainability of producing new content. The lack thereof makes me want > to set up fishing dates with Gary. :-) > > Dennis
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