Chuck Darwin<p>Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say. - The Scholarly Kitchen</p><p>The notice that libraries are <a href="https://c.im/tags/required" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>required</span></a> by <a href="https://c.im/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> to provide you is <a href="https://c.im/tags/false" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>false</span></a> and misleading. </p><p>In fact, you have the exact same rights in copies provided by the library that you do in copies made elsewhere. </p><p>Title 17, Section 107 of the U.S. Code. It describes limitations on the exclusive rights of copyright holders, making clear that despite the general exclusivity of those rights, users of copyrighted documents are nevertheless allowed to make limited uses of those documents that might otherwise infringe on the exclusivity of the copyright holder’s prerogatives. The law introduces fair use as follows:</p><p>The fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.</p><p>So why are libraries required by the current federal statute to mislead you in this way?</p><p><a href="https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2023/07/05/why-does-the-u-s-copyright-office-require-libraries-to-lie-to-users-about-their-fair-use-rights-they-wont-say/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/20</span><span class="invisible">23/07/05/why-does-the-u-s-copyright-office-require-libraries-to-lie-to-users-about-their-fair-use-rights-they-wont-say/</span></a></p>