11.  Copyright needs protection, but not at the expense of fair use.

12.  Fisher added that the heated rhetoric used in the case can be misleading, since intellectual property is limited by duration and by the fair use doctrine.

13.  It has been criticized as heavyhanded, tipping the balance of copyright law away from principles such as fair use.

14.  Ten years later, the fair use doctrine was born when a Massachusetts judge ruled in a case that involved artist rights, not consumer rights.

15.  The networks cited the legal concept of fair use, which they said allowed widespread use of broadcast material in the time of a national emergency.

16.  Where appeals to fair use fail, bootleg versions of Microsoft Word can be counted on to succeed.

17.  But the music industry contends that giving consumers the ability to make perfect digital copies that can be shared online goes far beyond fair use.

18.  Fair use generally allows individuals to duplicate copyrighted materials for education and other such purposes without compensating the copyright holder.

19.  Generally speaking, fair use allows individuals to duplicate copyrighted materials for education, research, criticism and other purposes without compensating the copyright holder.

20.  Giving consumers the ability to make perfect digital copies that can be shared on the Internet goes far beyond fair use, it argues.