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Unfortunately, nowadays what the laws say and what's legal are two different things
by spencerflem 2y ago
Unfortunately, nowadays what the laws say and what's legal are two different things
- jcranmer 2y agoIf you want to be pedantic, fair use isn't about what the law says, since it's entirely derived from judicial precedent rather than statutory text. It wasn't until the 1976 copyright reform that fair use was incorporated in statutory text, but as anyone who's followed any cases on fair use should know, there's never argument based on the statutory text itself.
- spencerflem 2y agoFair point, though it doesn't seem like the courts are putting much weight on precedent for their decisions either