Seizing on Student’s File-Sharing Case, Advocates Press for Copyright Reform

But the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s brief describes a range of examples in which fear of unpredictable and potentially large damages has hampered “reasonable and prudent experimentation with copyrighted material, especially in the digital environment.”

By Marc Parry

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

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