Fair Use At Risk When Private Companies Get To Make The Decision For Us

Posted by BernardSwiss on May 3, 2015 7:51 PM EDT
Techdirt; By Mike Masnick
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We talk a lot about how fair use is under attack these days, and I've discussed in the past my concerns about freedom of expression when we always have a company (or a few companies) standing in the middle of our decisions on whether or not we can speak. NiemanLabs has a great example of where this becomes problematic in a story about how SoundCloud will not even consider fair use in making decisions about whether or not to take down content, and how that's harming journalism:

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