Paul Sieminski, Anwalt von Automattic, das als das Unternehmen hinter WordPress auch wordpress.com betreibt, schreibt auf Wired über die Bedeutung von fair use für das Internet und wie fair use zunehmend attackiert wird und was Internetunternehmen tun können:
… WeiterlesenMany internet companies enjoy the legal protections of the DMCA and the convenience of letting users be responsible for what they post. But this puts much of the burden of defending lawfully posted content on individual users. Users who post content to a company’s services are a constituency whose expression deserves to be protected. Until copyright laws change to provide some meaningful penalties for targeting fair use, internet companies need to be more active on copyright issues, serving as the first line of defense in protecting the fair uses of content that have helped to make their platforms so popular.