What are some examples of the balance that used to exist?
Decades of legislation and court rulings built up a series of “fair use” rights for ordinary citizens. For example, the Audio Home Recording Act made it explicitly legal for people to make copies of music for noncommercial use. Similarly, in the Betamax case, the Supreme Court ruled that recording a TV show for later viewing was a legal, non-infringing use of the content. And the “first sale doctrine” made it legal to sell or loan copyrighted works that you legally purchased. However, recent legislation has invalidated each one of those rights. http://www.cdpage.com/Audio_Compact_Disc/ahra.html The Audio Home Recording act stated that citizens could not be held liable for infringement when the copied music for personal use. http://lamar.colostate.edu/~dvest/346/project/silos/BETACASE.HTML A summary of the Betamax case. “The Supreme Court reversed the Appeals Court decision on January 17, 1984, supporting the District Courts notion that the alleged infringement fell under the
