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Self-serve

August 31, 2007 on 2:08 am | Comments Off
Categories: copyright, law

Sometimes, the corporate interests of tech companies and those of copyfighters intersect. For some, it’s a relatively transparent case of self-interest: Google and Microsoft are sued continually - and harangued by Old Content industries - for their various activities which rely on Section 107 or 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act. Others have a foot in both camps. Apple pays lip-service (in public, at least) to sympathy for the content industries’ perceived ‘piracy’ crises.

All of which makes the composition of companies involved in the Computer & Communications Industry Association’s “Defend Fair Use” campaign especially telling.

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