The Tech Law Journal has collected all of the relevant Los Angeles Times v. Free Republic documents and the Free Republic site has posted its Reply Memorandum . The Times v. Free Republic case is an excellent one for studying the application of the Four-Factor Fair Use Test . Because Copyright and Fair Use issues affect all students and educators, this page attempts to provide some resources for classroom and research use. Pre-Permission for Virtual Republishing . This proposed system, which anyone may use, allows broad re-use of materials in exchange for automatic tracking of ownership.
Payment goes to the original publisher and credit to the original author.
A wording and an abbreviation for this permission system are proposed here. Technical communication, copyright, and the shrinking public domain. Excellent materials on the background of intellectual property law, and software and digital media as intellectual property. Brush, Stephen B . Indigenous People and Intellectual Property Rights .