Fightin' over fair use...

As a librarian, here is an issue near and dear to my sweet little heart -- copyright and fair use. An interesting article in this month's Bookforum discusses "...recent laws—like the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which increased protection of copyrighted material on the Internet, and the Sonny Bono Act—{which} have elevated intellectual property's status to such a degree that many courts and corporations often treat it in virtually the same way as they do physical property. " I'm all for writer's protection of their intellectual property, but I think it goes too far when you have huge corporations like FOX News try and put a copyright on words and phrases, a la "fair and balanced"...