Abstract
Copyright lawyers talk and write a lot about the uncertainties of fair use and the deterrent effects of a clearance culture on publishers, teachers, filmmakers, and the like, but know less about the choices people make about copyright on a daily basis, especially when they are not working. Here, Tushnet examines one subcultural group that engages in a variety of practices, from pure copying and distribution of others' works to creation of new stories, art, and audiovisual works: the media-fan community. Among other things, she discusses some differences between fair use and fan practices, focused around attribution as an alternative to veto rights over uses of copyrighted works.
Citation
Rebecca Tushnet,
Payment in Credit: Copyright Law and Subcultural Creativity,
70 Law and Contemporary Problems
135-174
(Spring 2007)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/vol70/iss2/9