How to Use fair use in a Sentence
fair use
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All in all, the fair use scorecard came out 2-1-1 in favor of the district.
— Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2022 -
Courts have battled over the issue of fair use for decades.
— Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024 -
White Perch – fair using worm on humps and ledges in 8 to 11 feet of water.
— Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 30 May 2018 -
But the heart of the conflict, what is trademarked and what is fair use, is nothing new.
— Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2024 -
White Perch – fair using worms on humps and ledges in 6-9 feet of water.
— Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 11 July 2018 -
The case was then sent back to the trial court to decide whether Google's use of the API was allowed by fair use.
— Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020 -
That plays into fair use and freedom of speech-type things.
— Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022 -
In that case, the justices effectively reined in the scope of fair use.
— Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023 -
The fourth factor in the fair use analysis that a court would do is the effect of the new use on the market for the old work.
— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 11 July 2024 -
So really just kind of drawing the lines around what’s fair use and what’s not with AI is.
— Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023 -
The Nike suit is just the latest case of legal wrangling over the ownership and fair use of NFTs.
— Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2022 -
The court held that the use of the photograph constituted fair use.
— Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022 -
All this falls under fair use, at least for the duration, is the thinking here.
— Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020 -
Google and lawyers for the plaintiffs, meanwhile, say the settlement is a fair use of cy pres and are urging the Supreme Court not to take the case.
— Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018 -
In 1994 the courts ruled that the rap song was a parody and therefore qualified for fair use.
— Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 July 2019 -
The motion argues that Trump should escape the lawsuit on fair use grounds.
— Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2020 -
The district argued that their use of the passage qualified as a fair use.
— Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2022 -
In response to Grant’s suit, Trump argued this was copyright fair use.
— Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2021 -
This is one of the reasons the courts found that book scanning for a search engine was legal under fair use.
— Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020 -
This same tension exists, for much the same reason, in fair use cases.
— Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2020 -
Peters and his lawyers tried to argue that Axanar fell under the terms of fair use.
— Brandon R. Reynolds, Los Angeles Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017 -
Already, there are signs that their ideas about fair use are gaining traction.
— Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023 -
Still, Drew has maintained her project is fair use protected by the First Amendment.
— Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2024 -
Memes were fair use, but each of the TikToks had to be cleared with the individual creators.
— Vulture, 10 Sep. 2023 -
The problems of copyright and fair use must also be dealt with, and that means a near-infinite number of lawyer-hours.
— Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023 -
The Supreme Court will consider that question—and wade into the waters of fair use doctrine—this fall.
— Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022 -
But the case got a legal shakeup a year later, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major ruling on fair use.
— Bill Donahue, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024 -
The sole dissenter was Jarvis, who argued against limiting fair use.
— Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024 -
Twitter declined to address Fortune's inquiry about whether the tweet should stay up on fair use grounds.
— Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019 -
And that actually does sort of a fair use summary and a proper link out.
— Nilay Patel, The Verge, 11 July 2024
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