How to Use fair use in a Sentence

fair use

noun
  • Defendants in those lawsuits, including OpenAI, say that this kind of scraping is fair use.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 16 July 2024
  • All in all, the fair use scorecard came out 2-1-1 in favor of the district.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Courts have battled over the issue of fair use for decades.
    Nancy Dillon, Rolling Stone, 23 Jan. 2024
  • White Perch – fair using worm on humps and ledges in 8 to 11 feet of water.
    Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 30 May 2018
  • White Perch – fair using worms on humps and ledges in 6-9 feet of water.
    Tyler Mahoney special To The Star, kansascity, 11 July 2018
  • The case was then sent back to the trial court to decide whether Google's use of the API was allowed by fair use.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 6 Oct. 2020
  • That plays into fair use and freedom of speech-type things.
    Scott Nover, Quartz, 15 Feb. 2022
  • In that case, the justices effectively reined in the scope of fair use.
    Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
  • The fourth factor in the fair use analysis that a court would do is the effect of the new use on the market for the old work.
    Nilay Patel, The Verge, 11 July 2024
  • So really just kind of drawing the lines around what’s fair use and what’s not with AI is.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Nike suit is just the latest case of legal wrangling over the ownership and fair use of NFTs.
    Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2022
  • The court held that the use of the photograph constituted fair use.
    Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • All this falls under fair use, at least for the duration, is the thinking here.
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Google and lawyers for the plaintiffs, meanwhile, say the settlement is a fair use of cy pres and are urging the Supreme Court not to take the case.
    Sara Randazzo, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018
  • In 1994 the courts ruled that the rap song was a parody and therefore qualified for fair use.
    Lisa Respers France, CNN, 30 July 2019
  • The motion argues that Trump should escape the lawsuit on fair use grounds.
    Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The district argued that their use of the passage qualified as a fair use.
    Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2022
  • In response to Grant’s suit, Trump argued this was copyright fair use.
    Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2021
  • This is one of the reasons the courts found that book scanning for a search engine was legal under fair use.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 1 June 2020
  • This same tension exists, for much the same reason, in fair use cases.
    Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2020
  • Peters and his lawyers tried to argue that Axanar fell under the terms of fair use.
    Brandon R. Reynolds, Los Angeles Magazine, 28 Sep. 2017
  • Already, there are signs that their ideas about fair use are gaining traction.
    Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • Still, Drew has maintained her project is fair use protected by the First Amendment.
    Aaron Couch, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Mar. 2024
  • Memes were fair use, but each of the TikToks had to be cleared with the individual creators.
    Vulture, 10 Sep. 2023
  • The problems of copyright and fair use must also be dealt with, and that means a near-infinite number of lawyer-hours.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The Supreme Court will consider that question—and wade into the waters of fair use doctrine—this fall.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2022
  • But the case got a legal shakeup a year later, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a major ruling on fair use.
    Bill Donahue, Billboard, 23 Jan. 2024
  • The sole dissenter was Jarvis, who argued against limiting fair use.
    Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Twitter declined to address Fortune's inquiry about whether the tweet should stay up on fair use grounds.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2019
  • Some cases will turn on complex legal issues like the doctrine of fair use.
    Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020

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