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Fair Use exceptions to copyright laws net more than $4.5 trillion/yr revenue for U.S.
- wallflower 18y agoThe numbers may be a little high (they must be including entire industrial sectors like say Internet/web), and it is undeniable that 'fair use' is essential to our information economy.
- tokenadult 18y agoThe number seems very sketchy indeed. The study linked from the press release http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/uploads/1/FairUseStudy-Sep12.pdf http://www.ccianet.org/artmanager/uploads/1/FairUseStudy-Sep... is not nearly explicit enough about methodology to inspire confidence in the implausible claim of "one-sixth of total U.S. GDP" in the press release. On the other hand, I have nothing against at least as much fair use as now occurs, so it would be wonderful to see the case for fair use made in more convincing fashion.