Making sure fair use gets a fair shake

Making Fair Choices: a symposium.

Making Fair Choices on the Path to Universal Health Coverage (World Health Organisation, 2014) offers an analysis of how lowand middle-income countries may follow a path to universal health care in ways consistent with principles of fairness. The report addresses three questions. Which services should policymakers expand first? To whom priority should be given when extending coverage? and Shoul...

Canine legislation: can dogs get a fair shake in court?

Several news stories appeared the month before the Animal Welfare Forum that illustrate a dilemma often expressed during the meeting. On Nov 1, 1996, the Sarasota Herald Tribune carried a graphic account of a 10-year-old boy killed by a neighbor's Rottweilers,1 and on November 27, a press conference in Pound Ridge, New York credited Abby the Rottweiler with foiling a baby's kidnapping by biting...

Figuring on fair use

Beyond Fair Use

For centuries, the fair use doctrine has been the main—if not the exclusive—bastion of user rights. Originating in the English courts of equity, the doctrine permitted users, under appropriate circumstances, to employ copyrighted content without the rightsholder’s consent. In the current digital media environment, however, the uncertainty that shrouds fair use and the proliferation of technolog...

FAIR: Fair Audience InfeRence

Given the recent changes in the policy governing Internet content distribution, such as the institution of per listener royalties for Internet radio broadcasters, content distributors now have an incentive to under-report the size of their audience. Previous audience measurement schemes only protect against inflation of audience size. We present the first protocols for audience measurement that...