How does copyright law respond to efforts to use (or abuse) copyright not for profit but to stifle speech?

Fair use embodies two different kinds of activities, though the line between them is not always clear. Reliance on fair use to quote from a work for comment or criticism, or to parody a work, implicates the 1st Amendment more so than copying an article from a journal for distribution to a class. The reason this line isn t crystal clear is that the use of the article in an educational context could well be for critical study, thus invoking the comment/criticism purpose as much as the convenience of the reader purpose.

Convenience is more susceptible to the argument that if I can license it to you, you should have to pay. In that context, permission isn t really an issue; the owner does not want to prevent anyone s use; rather, he only wants the user to pay for the use. Fair use shall continue to play an important role where permission is the real issue.

Its role in other contexts is less certain. More.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.

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