Fair use is decided by a judge; there is no specific rule about it. You have no better understanding of how fair use "works" than the author of the article does, because two seemingly identical actions can diverge on fair use.
The real problem here is that we have a President whose administration thinks a university is doing something wrong by making information available to its students using the best resources it has at its disposal. Yet somehow, mass numbers of the university students I encountered last fall were campaigning for that President and his administration...
Factors to be considered are not hard and fast rules. A judge needs to consider the factors; there is no specific threshold, combination, or minimum number of factors that must come into play. This is meant to be decided by judges.
Yes. I believe the point is that, although the law includes the word "education" [oops: "teaching"], that does not automatically exempt colleges from copyright law, as techdirt seems to imply.
Fair use is decided by a judge; there is no specific rule about it. You have no better understanding of how fair use "works" than the author of the article does, because two seemingly identical actions can diverge on fair use.
The real problem here is that we have a President whose administration thinks a university is doing something wrong by making information available to its students using the best resources it has at its disposal. Yet somehow, mass numbers of the university students I encountered last fall were campaigning for that President and his administration...