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Originally Posted by gideongallery
Copyright was never intendent to be an absolute monopoly it was ALWAY designed to be balanced against the public fair use right to use that content.
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Safe harbor provision has nothing to do with the protection of fair use - it was meant to protect ISPs from frivolous lawsuits, from getting sued for what their users are doing when things were beyond their control.
Fair use existed well before the internet and never needed a safe harbor to protect it - people made parodies and commentaries/critiques long before the first computer, let alone the internet, appeared.