How Do You Define Fair Use?

How Do You Define Fair Use?

Are you thinking about reprinting this brilliant paragraph on your website? Not so fast. Section 107 of the U.S. copyright law describes the fair use doctrine, which states that for certain purposes, copyrighted works can be used without authorization. This relatively ambiguous definition, however, has left a lot of gray area about how the doctrine should be interpreted. Where exactly is the line between fair use and copyright infringement?

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