Fair Use and Free Inquiry: Copyright Law and the New Media

by John Shelton Lawrence, Bernard Timberg, John Shelton Lawerence

This volume provides thorough coverage of some troublesome and seldom clarified issues that affect scholars who deal with nonprint media. When is it legitimate in teaching or publishing to quote a visual image from television, film or printed graphics? To quote the lines from a musical lyric? Why has the long tradition of fair use for printed material, which sanctions quoting without permission, been so slow in its extension to other media? How can...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0893914843
• ISBN13: 9780893914844
• Release Date: January 1989
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 436 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"