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In your example, you could just add one extra page which critiques the entire series and that would fall under fair use. You could literally put “After reading
by 0x8BADF00D 6y ago
In your example, you could just add one extra page which critiques the entire series and that would fall under fair use. You could literally put “After reading these books it’s shit and the writer is a hack”. Totally fair game.
- greggyb 6y agoFair use is not that simple, and the original authors would most likely win a suit against such a "critique". Typically the defense of fair use would apply to a work that excerpts from a larger work. Copying the original work in whole is going to be very hard to justify.
- basch 6y agoFair use is like a guilty plea. You're saying "yes I violated the authors copyright, but I should be allowed to." Then a judge decides if you're right. They use a test, and much of the criteria is a spectrum. However commercial use is more binary. You charge for something, you lose points. Is this work transformative?
- mondoshawan 6y agoNo, not at all. There are very clear very specific cases of what constitutes fair use in the written word case such as a book. Look it up.