Rhetorical Precis on "Administering Fair Use" (Scholarly Article)

            In the article “Administering Fair Use” (2009) in the William & Mary Law Review journal, Jason Mazzone suggests that current Fair Use laws are not enough to regulate the United States, and that an administrative agency from the executive branch of the government is needed to enforce Fair Use. Mazzone supports this suggestion by showing the current flaws in the judicial system when Fair Use is attempted to be enforced, discussing the intimidation tactics used by copyright holders to force people to forego their Fair Use right, and presenting information about Finland and how their executive branch successfully handles copyright law. Mazzone’s purpose is to propose a new idea on how to regulate Fair Use in order to reduce the confusion with the current Fair Use handling in the United States. The intended audience for this article is a group of people with some background in law: Mazzone uses a lot of legal terms without defining them and is published in a Law journal, but also has a very dry and clean organization where it is not appealing to the public who have no reason to read this long article.

Works Cited

Mazzone, Jason. "Administering Fair Use." William & Mary Law Review. LexisNexis Academic, Nov. 2009. Web. 06 Feb. 2012.