What’s the Law on Fair Use with Online Content? Kimberley Isbell from the Nieman Journalism Lab has a very lengthy article on the legal aspects of aggregated content. “For all of the attention that news aggregators have received, no case in the United States has yet definitively addressed the question of whether their activities are legal.”

Even the US Government Copyright office states that  “the distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined.” This paper from Jonathan Band for the Journal of Business and Technology Law does an excellent job reviewing the legal cases when it comes to Google and Fair Use. In it, Band states that according to section 107 of the Copyright Act, …“fair use factors to be considered shall include— the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes; the nature of the copyrighted work; the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.”

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