You can take so much but only so much before it becomes more than fair use.
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In other words, it made such activity a valid example of fair use.
Thanks to another rapper two decades ago, parodies are generally considered to be a form of fair use.
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Then again, courts have yet to test the extent of that fair use.
Cyberlibertarians would do the opposite and infinitely expand the concept of fair use, or limited exemption to copyright protection.
Publishers don't know yet how much content from a particular book will be available to Google under fair use.
Should it be easier for me to grab a fair use excerpt in return for a link to her book?
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Google maintains that the chunks of copyrighted material that it makes available on its books site are legal under fair use.
The value society places on creativity means that fair use needs to be expanded and inadvertent infringement should be minimally penalised.
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The Internet as we know it today would not be possible without robust fair use protections for this type of copying.
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Last week the jury ruled that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright but could not agree on whether Google's actions constituted "fair use".
She heads the Fair Use and Free Speech research project at the Center for Social Media at the School of Communications at American University.
Those measures allow Real to make a strong argument that it merely allows "fair use" of copying for convenience and backup purposes--not piracy, Pulgram says.
The second is a fair use excerpt lovingly hand typed from a highlighted passage of the iBook (that I paid for) on my iPhone screen.
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"There's a doctrine called 'fair use', which we believe to be challenged in the courts and would bar it altogether, " Mr Murdoch told the TV channel.
When it is impracticable to obtain permission, use of copyrighted material should be avoided unless the doctrine of fair use would clearly apply to the situation.
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It also makes it harder for users to engage in legally-protected fair use, such as quoting his post for criticism as I did in the previous paragraph.
David Cameron pointed to the " fair use" doctrine in American law, which he said had allowed companies like Google to flourish without fear of infringing copyright.
"Web-native publishers have long come around to the view that short quotes with attribution are not only 'fair use' but highly beneficial, " founder Gabe Rivera told BBC News.
Somewhere in the undiscovered middle ground the industry will be able to make a fair profit, and users will be able to make fair use of the content.
Meltwater said it believes Cote misapplied the fair use doctrine.
However, in order to make a copy of the blog post wholesale, the web scraper would have to rely on a defense to infringement, such as fair use.
Those in the creative industries who dubbed Professor Hargreaves' mission "the Google review" feared that our copyright regime would be torn up and replaced with a fair use law.
Google claimed at the time it was protected by the "fair use" principle because its book search engine showed only short snippets of text for the books it had scanned without permission.
The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted workThe distinction between fair use and infringement may be unclear and not easily defined.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), an organization based in San Francisco which supports civil liberties in digital arenas, is providing a legal defense that cites, among other issues, fair use.
"It demonstrates that the media community stands together in recognizing that Meltwater's business of appropriating and selling media content cannot be excused as fair use and instead is infringing, " she said.
Copyright protection provides the owner exclusive rights to use, copy and adapt the fictional characters, as well as other related rights, subject only to copyright defenses such as fair use or expiration.
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The Stop Texting Fair Use Act, or STFU Act, would apply to message transmitted using the Short Message Service (SMS) as well as messages containing image, video, and sound content (MMS messages).
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The AP's supporters also said Meltwater's service does not amount to "fair use" because it copies material without alteration, does not aid the public good and damages the market for copyrighted work.
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