fair use

[fair yoos]

noun

1. reasonable and limited use of copyrighted material so as not to infringe upon copyright.

   The artist's biographer claimed fair use of quotes from unpublished personal letters.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fair use¹

First recorded in 1840–45

Example Sentences

District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco ruled in June that Anthropic’s use of the books to train the AI models constituted “fair use,” so it wasn’t illegal.

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Alsup found the usage to be “exceedingly transformative” and “a fair use,” though the company might have broken the law by pirating a large portion of its source material.

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On 21 May, during Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir was asked whether Connolly's imprisonment was an "efficient or fair use" of prison.

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At that time, Alsup had rejected the plaintiffs’ copyright infringement claim, finding that Anthropic’s use of copyrighted material to develop its AI bot fell within a copyright exemption known as “fair use.”

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Judge William Alsup of San Francisco, because it’s a test of whether using copyrighted works falls within the “fair use” exemption from copyright infringement.

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