Phoenix Center Disputes CCIA’s Fair Use Estimate
The Computer & Communications Industry Association’s estimation that fair use generates 16 percent of U.S. gross domestic product is a “comically-outsized effect,” said Phoenix Center Chief Economist George Ford Wednesday: CCIA improperly expects policymakers to “believe that entire industries like…
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computer manufacturing, computer and printer repair, architectural and legal services, newspapers, the movie industry, among others, ‘would not exist’ without liberal fair use.” CCIA Vice President Matt Schruers said, "The choice of the WIPO methodology in 2007 was to enable cross-industry comparison with many years of content industry studies employing the same framework. If the Phoenix Center is claiming this overstates the size of the fair use economy, they're also claiming that years of content industry studies employing the same methodology are also overstated. That probably won't go over well with their funders."