Robin Gross is founder and Executive Director of IP Justice, an international civil liberties organization that promotes balanced intellectual property law and defends freedom of expression... (wikipedia)
We're on the path of creating monopoly business practices out of copyright law.
Our main goal, ... is to build a strong, solid record to take to the appeals court, where civil liberties are taken more seriously.
Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't see yet.
This underscores the problem with the RIAA, ... They don't even have to file a lawsuit; just the threat is enough to stifle research.
The copyright bargain: a balance between protection for the artist and rights for the consumer.
If you write something that allows somebody to copy stuff later on, you could be jailed. This is a wake-up call for programmers.
The court has now carved out a new category of expression that can be excluded from the First Amendment,