The Fair Use Project is part of the

Stanford Center for Internet and Society The Center for Internet and Society (CIS) is a public interest technology law and policy program founded in 2000 by Lawrence Lessig at Stanford Law School Stanford Law School (Stanford Law or SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a pri ...

Stanford Law School Stanford Law School (Stanford Law or SLS) is the law school of Stanford University, a private research university near Palo Alto, California. Established in 1893, it is regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world. Stanford La ...

. Founded in 2006, it offers legal assistance to "clarify, and extend, the boundaries of "

fair use Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the intere ...

" in order to enhance creative freedom." It is headed by Tony Falzone, lecturer at Stanford Law. It has been involved in several notable cases such as ''Aguiar v. Webb'', ''Brave New Films v. Viacom'', ''Golan v. Gonzales'', ''Kahle v. Gonzales'', ''Lennon v. Premise Media'', ''

Warner Brothers and JK Rowling v. RDR Books ''Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. and J. K. Rowling v. RDR Books'', 575 F.Supp.2d 513 (SDNY 2008) was a copyright lawsuit brought on 31 October 2007 by the media company Warner Bros. and ''Harry Potter'' author J. K. Rowling against RDR Books ...

'', ''Shloss v. Joyce'', and ''Vargas v. BT''.

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