Fair Use

Blue Linden

You have said a number of times that not all copying is infringement on a copyright.

From the Copyright office's website regarding Fair Use:

"The 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law cites examples of activities that courts have regarded as fair use: “quotation of excerpts in a review or criticism for purposes of illustration or comment; quotation of short passages in a scholarly or technical work, for illustration or clarification of the author's observations; use in a parody of some of the content of the work parodied; summary of an address or article, with brief quotations, in a news report; reproduction by a library of a portion of a work to replace part of a damaged copy; reproduction by a teacher or student of a small part of a work to illustrate a lesson; reproduction of a work in legislative or judicial proceedings or reports; incidental and fortuitous reproduction, in a newsreel or broadcast, of a work located in the scene of an event being reported.”


Can you tell us how any of the recognized Fair Use exemptions can be applied to the copybot? Not olny does the copybot allow someone to copy an item that they do not own for thieir own use or to reproduce for sale, but it removes the origial artists attributions. There is no way at any reasonable person or court could see the use of the copybot in its current form as facilitating Fair Use. Any Fair Use needs as listed in the above excerpt could be more easily accomplished through the use of a screenshot.