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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-18 20:39:07
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IMO, this is a much better example of fair use, and has real world implications too.

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 regardless of whether copyright law would other restrict those activities.
 Discussion of the various types of fair use activity are beyond the scope of
 this tutorial.  However, one important example of fair use is the right to
 quote a very few lines from a file and reuse them as you would with or
 without licensing restrictions.
 quote portions of the text in larger work so as to criticize or suggest
 changes.  This fair use rights is commonly used on mailing lists when
 discussing potential improvements or changes to Free Software.
 Fair use is a doctrine established by the courts or by statute. By
+Fair use is a doctrine established by the courts or by statute.  By
 contrast, unregulated uses are those that are not covered by the statue
 nor determined by a court to be covered, but are common and enjoyed by
 many users. An example of unregulated use is reading a printout of the
+many users.  An example of unregulated use is reading a printout of the
 program's source code like an instruction book for the purpose of learning
 how to be a better programmer.

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