General Copyright Statement:I'm pretty sure aMorePerfectUnion is closer to the intent of jimrob's policy than your stated preference.
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Fair use policy is usually about money and the willingness to use it. Free Republic was sued by LA Times and there was a settlement. There were and are libtard websites which post the full articles from LA Times and they never got sued. It wasn’t about fair use, it was about ideology with LA Times.
The intent of fair use was that legit authors wouldn’t get copied and folks sell their writings as their own.
Where I went to school, Kinko’s was started right there at the Quad in UCSB. Professors would publish their book and syllabus and sell it for $300, pocketing some extra cash because they forced their students to buy the book. Some students got together and would buy one print of the book and copy it at Kinko’s for all their collaborative educational brethren, circumventing that corrupt system with the legal fair use loophole which is applicable to Free Republic. From that same earlier link: educational institutions can use photocopies of copyrighted work for students enrolled in a class, so long as the copying is limited to:
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An article from a periodical or newspaper.