Fair use has been one of the problem children of copyright law for a long time. Since it was originally created, it has lived in a state of conflict. It was designed to let one person infringe legally on the copyright held by another, which may not sit well with the copyright holder. But fair use was also designed to provide new—and different—uses for copyrighted works to allow knowledge and learning to develop, which most people considered to be a good thing.
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