fair use

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Noun

fair use (countable and uncountable, plural fair uses)

1. (copyright law) A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.

   Coordinate term: fair dealing (counterpart in various Commonwealth countries; stricter but akin)

   1. Use of another party's intellectual property that is protected by this doctrine.
      • 2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic‎:

        Many commentators have argued that training AI with copyrighted material constitutes “fair use”

      • 2025 June 25, Lee Chong Ming, “Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said”, in Business Insider‎:

        Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI models was "exceedingly transformative" and qualified as fair use, a legal doctrine that allows certain uses of copyrighted works without the copyright owner's permission.

Translations

doctrine in intellectual property law

Armenian: ազատ օգտագործում (azat ōgtagorcum) Azerbaijani: ədalətli istifadə, insaflı istifadə Chinese: Mandarin: 合理使用 (zh) (hélǐ shǐyòng) Finnish: kohtuullinen käyttö (no equivalent concept in Finnish law) French: usage équitable m Hindi: उचित उपयोग m (ucit upyog) Japanese: フェアユース (ja) (feayūsu) Korean: 공정 이용 (gongjeong iyong) Romanian: utilizare cinstită f Spanish: uso justo m, uso legítimo m Vietnamese: sử dụng hợp lý