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  2. Fair use - Wikipedia

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    Fair use is a doctrine in United States law that permits limited use of copyrighted material without having to first acquire permission from the copyright holder. Fair use is one of the limitations to copyright intended to balance the interests of copyright holders with the public interest in the wider distribution and use of creative works by ...

  3. Wikipedia:FAQ/Copyright - Wikipedia

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    In the US, fair use (in the UK, fair dealing) is explicitly permitted as well, as is the right to sell a licensed copy of a copyrighted work, such as a video tape or sound recording. Also, both the Berne Convention and US law require that a work have some original creativity to be eligible for a copyright monopoly.

  4. Copyright Act of 1976 - Wikipedia

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    Additionally, the fair use defense to copyright infringement was codified for the first time in section 107 of the 1976 Act. Fair use was not a novel proposition in 1976, however, as federal courts had been using a common law form of the doctrine since the 1840s (an English version of fair use appeared much earlier). The Act codified this ...

  5. Copyright - Wikipedia

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    The statute does not clearly define fair use, but instead gives four non-exclusive factors to consider in a fair use analysis. Those factors are: the purpose and character of one's use; the nature of the copyrighted work; what amount and proportion of the whole work was taken;

  6. Copyright law of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Using a large portion of the copyrighted work is less likely to be fair use. However, courts have occasionally found use of an entire work to be fair use, and in other contexts, using even a small amount of a copyrighted work was determined not to be fair use because the selection was an important part—or the "heart"—of the work.

  7. Why The New York Times' lawyers are inspecting OpenAI's code ...

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    Judges across the country are "all over the map" in deciding fair use copyright cases, according to Christa Laser, an intellectual property law professor at Cleveland State University, setting up ...

  8. Copyright infringement - Wikipedia

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    The laws implementing these limitations and exceptions for uses that would otherwise be infringing broadly fall into the categories of either fair use or fair dealing. In common law systems, these fair practice statutes typically enshrine principles underlying many earlier judicial precedents, and are considered essential to freedom of speech. [62]

  9. Limitations and exceptions to copyright - Wikipedia

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    Limitations and exceptions to copyright are provisions, in local copyright law or the Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without a license from the copyright owner. Limitations and exceptions to copyright relate to a number of important considerations such as market failure , freedom of speech , [ 1 ] education and ...