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I'm your host, Jonathan Strickland.

I'm an executive producer with IHeartRadio and How the Tech Are You?

This episode originally published May 17th, 2021 is called Copyright and Fair Use.

I feel it's always important to revisit this topic because it's a, it's one that's a little

complicated and I think a lot of people

have misconceptions about what fair use is and how it works. So enjoy and I'll chat with you

a little bit at the very end. It has been a while since I've done an episode about the

concepts of copyright and fair use.

And after I keep seeing the phrase no copyright infringement intended over and over on places like YouTube and Instagram,

I figure it's a good time to tackle this again, because people continue to pretend like copyright infringement

only applies under very specific circumstances, and that with just a little bit of verbiage,

you can get around it when really the opposite is true.

And since the internet and technology allows for more opportunities for

copyright infringement, and because various governments and around the world have passed

legislation to specifically tackle copyright infringement and companies have lobbied

endlessly for more restrictive copyright rules.

I think it fits the scope of tech stuff,

particularly since a lot of these laws were formed in reaction to changes in technology.

So first, let's kind of define what copyright is.

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