links for 2010-11-22

Does Gawker have a First Amendment right to excerpt Sarah Palin’s book and make fun of it? Or can Sarah Palin use her powers under copyright law to stop them? The answer is, depends! The copyright clause of the Constitution does not always get along well with the First Amendment. When they find themselves in a conflict, we go to the judges, and the judges now use something called the Fair Use Doctrine to mediate it.