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IPSC Breakout Session #2: mostly copyright and then marijuana innovation

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Harper & Row gets litigated as a First Amendment/free press case by Floyd Abrams; Court relies on Nimmer. Court chose to rule quite narrowly in part b/c of concessions during litigation. Fair use is a failure b/c the only way to know if something is fair or not is to litigate to the Supreme Court, and you might not know even then.

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WIPIP session 5: Anti-Circumvention

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Fanworks is a good example where fair use is important. [voluntariness seems like a problem here] Doing this without privity means that even if it could all be done w/contract, 1201 goes beyond what contract could have done. A distinct set of works. Librarians/archivists/educators as representing a broad social sector?

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