Comment Re:Quote will be useful in court (Score 0) 33
If you are copying text from a screen or book to your brain (with your eyes) then it may be copyright infringment.
There have been multiple lawsuits that resulted in the person that created a song are not allowed to perform ("open your mouth") it since part of the song belongs to someone else and thus violates copyright.
In US they have multiple exeptions for example "scholarship" and "comment". But sure if your reading does not qualify for fair use then yes you are in violation of the owners copyright (if you dont have the permission from the owner).
I'm taking this to the extreme here:
First amendment says "The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or to publish their sentiments".
If the Supreme Court say that "their sentiments" can not be something one else created then fair use can be decleared be unconstitutional. A work I created is "my sentiment", you are not allowed to use it in any way since it violates my first amendment to publish or speak it.
New lawsuits may result if you are pregnant and thinking about things you are sharing it with your unborn baby. Copyrighted material may be encoded to DNA/RNA, there are so many things we don't know about DNA.
I'm not being sarcastic.