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From the Chronicle of Higher Ed’s Wired Campus Blog: Adventures in Fair-Use Doctrine:

Fair-use doc­trine, as cod­i­fied in U.S. law, allows peo­ple to repro­duce por­tions of copy­righted works “for pur­poses such as crit­i­cism, com­ment, news report­ing, teach­ing, schol­ar­ship, or research.” That seems straight­for­ward enough. But there’s a span­ner in the works, as Shelley Batts can attest: Copyright hold­ers can’t seem to agree on just which uses are fair.

Last week Ms. Batts, a grad­u­ate stu­dent in neu­ro­science at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, wrote a harmless-looking blog post about a study pub­lished in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture. The study exam­ined the effects of alco­hol on the antiox­i­dant prop­er­ties of some fruit. She sum­ma­rized its find­ings and repro­duced a chart and a graph from the journal.

Read the rest of the post at the link above, detail­ing how the blog­ger dealt with a legal demand that she remove the charts from her site.

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