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Larry Lessig will be delivering this testimony (pdf) at tomorrow’s congressional hearing on the DMCRA (which will begin at 10 AM EST). Larry even indulges in a little bit of classic inside-the-beltway rhetoric:

Fair use has been a central aspect of American copyright law. It is less familiar within other legal traditions. Indeed, this difference may well account for the relatively anemic understanding of fair use offered by trade associations, including the RIAA. As every major label in that trade organization is now owned by foreign corporations, it is not surprising that those labels find our tradition to be alien.