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May 31- June 4 copyright legislation [] []

How will this bill foster creativity and innovation?
For creative industries, this bill provides a clear, predictable legal framework that allows them to combat online piracy and roll out new online business models. For high-tech and software companies, this bill provides the certainty they need to develop new products and services that involve legitimate uses of copyrighted material. For educators, students and researchers, this bill opens up greater access to copyrighted material by recognizing education as a legitimate purpose for fair dealing. New measures will allow more efficient ways to teach, conduct research, and deliver course material and lessons using the latest technologies. It will also allow teachers to distribute publicly available material from the Internet. For entertainers and commentators, this bill includes parody and satire as purposes to which fair dealing applies. For users, the bill will allow the creation of user-generated content using copyright materials, such as mash-up videos, for posting on a blog or video-sharing site.