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The issue of music on youtube that can thus be easily accessed with access to a basic Internet browser has exercised the music industry and its artists as a major threat to their ability to control and profit from the dissemination of their songs. In return, advocates for the broad body of legal doctrines governing copyright enforcement referred to as “fair use” have claimed that record industry legal measures are unnecessarily and indiscriminately punitive, engineered less to protect the fortunes and artistic pursuits of musicians than to drive a wedge in popular music between its professional base and its constituency of fans. In reference to the issue of youtube music, much attention was brought to it by the legal case of Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., which also brought for one of the first time a considered legal decision to bear on the issues raised in connection to music on youtube. This case ended with the decision in reference to the posting of music on youtube that fair use doctrines should be taken into consideration by copyright holders before the issuing of injunctions in reference to youtube music. The causes for this suit originally arose in reference to one Stephanie … Continue reading