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Will Automated Rights Management Take Down Fair Use?

  • Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Automating the copyright review process for videos could speed things up, but may also put a squeeze on fair use determinations.

While both content owners and platform providers have taken steps to minimize the fair-use impact of takedowns -- such as employing teams of lawyers to review individual posts before asking to have them removed -- automating the process to make it faster could put a squeeze on the breathing space needed to make a fair determination of fair use.

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