What is "Fair Use"?

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MeteorWayne

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"In copyright law, quotation or reproduction of a small portion of copyrighted material (with proper acknowledgment), which does not require the permission of the copyright holder. The amount varies in proportion to the length of the original, the governing theory being that the use should not decrease the market for the original.
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(From Amazon)

"Fair use is a doctrine in United States copyright law that allows limited use of copyrighted material without requiring permission from the rights holders, such as use for scholarship or review. It provides for the legal, non-licensed citation or incorporation of copyrighted material in another author's work under a four-factor balancing test. The term "fair use" originated in the United States, but has been added to Israeli law as well; a similar principle, fair dealing, exists in some other common law jurisdictions. Civil law jurisdictions have other limitations and exceptions to copyright"

http://www.answers.com/fair%20use

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_use

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html
 
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All users,

Please note the following update to our Community Guidelines regarding Fair Use:

Please note that you may post excerpts from another source, adhering to Fair Use practice. In order to comply with Fair Use practice, you must provide a link to the original URL (this ensures proper acknowledgment and attribution) and you may quote/cite only a small portion of the copyrighted material. This small amount does not require permission of the copyright holder. The amount can vary in proportion to the length of the original (most excerpts need only be 2 or 3 paragraphs), but the amount of cited material should not be so much as to essentially republish the original publication.
 
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