As the Internet and digital content have grown, so has the threat to the fair use of copyrighted material. The ease in which digital content can be copied, published, and distributed works against the principlesrnunderlying the fair use doctrine. How can limited portions of content be used for limited, fair purposes in the Internet's unlimited environment?rnContent owners who see digitization as a threat have also used digital rights management technologies to control use of their content. Passwords, encryption, and other techniques allow content own-rners to restrict or regulate their content. The fair use doctrine does not give a user the right to access content that the owner restricts, even if that access is arguably within the scope of fair use.
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