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Old 09-09-2008, 07:50 PM  
kenny
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Originally Posted by gideongallery View Post
not anymore, now if you send a take down request for something that is fair use, you can be sued for all the court costs, and economic damage.

http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/08...ider-fair-use-

ruling like this have created an economic insentive to fight, lawyers can defend the fair use rights probono and cash in at the end with a counter suit.

Your livelihood is just at risk if you falsely target a fair use access/distribution of copyrighted materials.





except for the cash people have to pay to rebuy the content they have a fair use right to recover.

Don't humour me with a child dancing to background music being compared to anything remotely of scale of what I'm referring too.
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