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It’s Only Fair Use the First Time… Right? Debunking Copyright Urban Legends
This guest post, by Katherine Klosek of ARL and Stephen Wolfson of the University of Pennsylvania, is the latest in our series of posts marking the 50th anniversary of the Copyright Act of 1976. To find a list of all the posts in this series, click here. Have you ever heard this: If you use 10 seconds or less of a song in a YouTube video, it’s fair use. Or this: You can copy 10% of a book for a class, and that’s fair use. Rules of thumb like these are common, but are they actually true? In truth, neither of…
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