Big Tech is Killing Fair Use

Congress codified the legal doctrine of fair use to promote free expression and ensure a free and prosperous democracy. It is time for Congress to update the Copyright Act of 1976 to include Big Tech.

Two hundred years after the founding of our great experiment, Senator John McClellan introduced the Copyright Act of 1976¹ codifying a legal doctrine known as fair use. McClellan, who at 17 years old was the youngest attorney in the United States², believed that the concept of fair use was vital to ensure both a free and prosperous democracy. To that end,…