User blog comment:Semanticdrifter/Understanding Fair Use/@comment-256681-20121127230206/@comment-166269-20121201074846


 * These laws just weren't designed for the internet...

Yes and no. Many aspects of copyright, and of fair use, predate the Internet. Most of what doesn't is designed to serve the interests of the copyright holder (by which I mean, large corporations and media conglomerates, the ones actually paying politicians to sign the legislature they write - they couldn't care less about the interests of individual content creators).