Law professor, Creative Commons co-founder and advocate for copyright reform Lawrence Lessig has agreed to receive damages from an Australian music label. Without considering fair use Liberation wrongly had some of Lessig’s work removed from YouTube and threatened to sue – it didn’t go well. […]
Now, according to the EFF [Electronic Frontier Foundation], Lessig has settled his dispute with Liberation after the label agreed to pay him damages and “fix” its copyright policies. […]
“Too often, copyright is used as an excuse to silence legitimate speech,” Lessig said in a statement.
“I’ve been fighting against that kind of abuse for many years, and I knew I had to stand up for fair use here as well. Hopefully this lawsuit and this settlement will send a message to copyright owners to adopt fair takedown practices — or face the consequences.”