Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright

ouch.... It's a bad day when your copyrighted work is worth more to others than to yourself. But that's the way it always has been.. What good is it if you write a great book, but no one knows about. You could talk yourself blue saying it's "great" but people see that as bias. So other people that have read your book must be allowed to write about it and even quote it (without paying you). This generates interest in you book and increases your sales, but it also may make money for the "reviewers". If the book becomes widely reviewed and quoted, it may actually make MORE money for the reviewers than it does for you. But if the copyright owner tries to get a cut of the money the reviews and other "fair use" users of his work make, then he's killing the goose that made his work so popular to begin with.

Fair Use Worth More to Economy Than Copyright, CCIA Says -- Copyright -- InformationWeek