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. Intellectual Property, Humanistic Studies, and the Internet . Southern Illinois Univ Press, 2001. Excellent materials on the background of intellectual property law, and software and digital media as intellectual property.