The use of copyrighted material that can be used without permission of the original copyright owner such as criticism, reviewing, news reporting, parodies, remixes, mashups, cover songs, scholarship, and teaching.
My Youtube video was fair use!
by HeavyMetalGuy360 November 21, 2015
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According to the YouTube copyright system, this law does not exist.
I was abiding by fair use and yet YouTube still took down my video
by nlolhere June 26, 2020
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Bullshit the feds made to allow your hard work to be stolen without permission, a law that needs to criminalized.
Idiots often use "Fair Use" to excuse stealing your homemade works so they can shit on them, pseudo-intellectual mods will respect this shit even when it's not right.
by The Painful Reality March 10, 2020
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A dismissive rejoinder often used among legal professionals in place of the more common expression "fuck you."
A: Can you please clean up that mess you left on my desk?
B: I will after you clean up the mess I left on your mom.
A: Fair use.
by PLLC September 9, 2021
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