Google and Microsoft Help To Defend Fair Use

An anonymous reader writes "The Computer & Communications Industry Association filed a complaint this month with the FTC 'alleging that professional sports leagues, Hollywood studios, and book publishers were all using copyright notices that misrepresented the law'. That is, they were aggressively pursuing 'right' that they were not entitled to. Now a group, backed by companies like Oracle, Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Sun, and Red Hat, has launched a web site called Defend Fair Use that shows they are serious about making the complaint stick. From the article: 'In contrast to copyright notices that take no account of fair use and claim control over "all accounts and descriptions" of a game, the CCIA offers a different copyright notice of its own. "We recognize that copyright law guarantees that you, as a member of the public, have certain legal rights," it says, "You may copy, distribute, prepare derivative works, reproduce, introduce into an electronic retrieval system, perform, and transmit portions of this publication provided that such use constitutes 'fair use' under copyright law, or is otherwise permitted by applicable law."'"

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I may disagree with them, but I will defend their

[Anonymous Coward]

right to shove it up their fucking asses sideways with a crowbar

do no evil, puh-lease

Evil bitches, the both of them. Data mining fools. I can't wait to see the uproar when people finally figure out how much stuff google has on them, and how they can't get google to delete the details of their surfing (care of doubleclick trails), their searches (care of google.com), their email (care of gmail), their phone calls (care of 700mhz), their purchasing habits (care of google checkout), with the latter tying all of the former info to a real (meat) person. Don't say we didn't tell you so.