Read the First Amendment argument advanced in Salinger case in a brief filed today by the Fair Use Project, Georgetown Law Center and the Samuelson clinic.  It urges the Second Circuit to adopt a more stringent test for issuing preliminary injunctions against books and other expressive works, and to reject the narrow interpretation of the fair use doctrine applied by the District Court. See Anthony Falzone's blog post and brief at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/node/6230

New perspective on the proposed Google Book Search Settlement Agreement from Mimi Calter, Stanford University Libraries at:

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/commentary_and_analysis/2009_02_calter_google_settlement.html

If you're following the Harry Potter court case filed by J. K. Rowling and Warner Brothers against an RDR Books' Harry Potter Lexicon, you may want to look at the new court filings that came in on Friday to the Stanford Copyright & Fair Use site, courtesy of Justia.com.

 

The Stanford Fair Use Project is defending RDR books.

The Fairly Useful blog has a post by Matthew Sag on Stanford Law Professor Paul Goldstein's keynote at Columbia Law School's symposium on developments in fair use, Fair Use: "Incredibly Shrinking" or Extraordinarily Expanding?