Peter Jaszi is a widely known expert on copyright law and author, with Patricia Aufderheide, of Reclaiming Fair Use (2012), which examines the state of fair use and the importance to scholarship, art, and free expression of strengthening the doctrine.
Jaszi earned a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1968 and a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1971. [1]
Jaszi was one of the founders in 1995 of the "Digital Future Coalition", an organization of library associations and other public interest groups engaging in copyright advocacy during the late 1990s. [2] Jaszi has testified numerous times before Congress on copyright matters, [2] and in 1994 served on the Librarian of Congress' Advisory Commission on Copyright Registration and Deposit. [3] Jaszi also serves as a trustee of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A., the primary scholarly society dedicated to copyright law. [3]
Jaszi is currently Emeritus Professor of Law at American University's Washington College of Law, and Founder of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic. [4]
Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works by allowing as a defense to copyright infringement claims certain limited uses that might otherwise be considered infringement. Unlike "fair dealing" rights that exist in most countries with a British legal history, the fair use right is a general exception that applies to all different kinds of uses with all types of works and turns on a flexible proportionality test that examines the purpose of the use, the amount used, and the impact on the market of the original work.
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