A small victory for fair use was won yesterday in a Second Circuit Court of appeals. "Fair use is not a doctrine that exists by sufferance, or that is earned by good works and clean morals; it is a right--codified in § 107 and recognized since shortly after the Statute of Anne--that is "necessary to fulfill copyright’s very purpose, ‘[t]o promote the Progress of science and the useful arts . . . ."
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