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Topic: Fair Use

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  Use    Fair  
  Use the Internet    Use the name  
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 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Credit card
Intelligence:Incompetent
Currently has on their coffee table:Entertainment Weekly,  Fast Company
Dream job(s):Tax Collector
Favorite TV show(s):Buffy the Vampire Slayer,  The Muppets
Favorite book(s):The Guinness Book of Records
Interest(s):Law
Favorite online activity(s):Downloading MP3's
Listens to:Elvis Presley
Medical note(s):Mentally retarded
Ultimate fantasy(s):Finding genuinely free porn on the internet,  Getting off welfare,  Bankruptcy
Membership(s):Electronic Frontier Foundation,  Free Software Foundation
Favorite quote(s):"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly
 
 
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Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Fair use and these guidelines shall not preempt or supersede licenses and contractual obligations.
This makes a working knowledge of the fair use statute and its four factors an essential tool in determining if the use made of a copyrighted work is a fair use.
Fair use is a statutory affirmative defense to conduct otherwise actionable under the copyright law.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

These guidelines clarify the application of fair use of copyrighted works as teaching methods are adapted to new learning environments.
John Carthy,
Gun Shop Sales Assistant

Fair use is the constitutional rights of citizens in respect to their legally obtained property, which happens to be of copies of works granted Copyright.
FAIR USE The use of a portion of copyrighted material in a way that does not infringe the owner's rights.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

Fair Use of Copyrighted Works , Electronic version of a pamphlet published by CETUS: Consortium for Educational Technology in University Systems.
Mike Enlow,
Internet Marketer

Use which involves any copyright violation or for the copying, downloading or distributing copyrighted material without the owner's permission, unless permitted in accordance with the Fair Use Guidelines.
Fact: Fair use is widely accepted to mean the reproduction of a part of a copyrighted work, not the wholesale copying of an entire program or contributing to software piracy.
The fourth fair use factor, the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work, [77] is aimed at the copier who attempts to usurp the demand for the original work.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

Fair Use for Teaching and Research The "fair use" doctrine allows limited reproduction of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes.
Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate

Fair use is a statutory provision which allows the reproduction of copyrighted materials for specific uses which might otherwise constitute copyright infringement.
 
 
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