Copyright, fair use, and religious exemptions

[Scarberry, Mark]

On the fair use issue only:

If I authored a work which I later thought contained serious errors--errors
that could seriously harm people who read my work and who believed it--I
should be able to use my copyright to prevent further publication of the
work. I think the choice not to publish is within the property rights
granted the author. Thus PCG's claim seems wrong that a refusal by the
copyright owner to publish a work permits others to publish it. To grant a
lesser right to a transferee copyright holder (such as the Worldwide Church,
if it indeed holds the copyright) would seem to undercut the notion that
copyright interests are transferable property interests, not moral rights of
the author.

Mark S. Scarberry
Pepperdine University School of Law
mscarber at pepperdine.edu <mailto:mscarber at pepperdine.edu>