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		wolfgke on Aug 9, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Do Things That Don’t Scale (2013) "Fair use" is a very US-American concept. For example German Urheberrechtsgesetz > https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/ knows no concept of fair use - you can easily get sued if you use even a little snippet of a copyrighted work (and often are). Only in some very specifically defined cases short quotes are allowed: > https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/urhg/__51.html

nayuki on Aug 11, 2017 [–]

"Fair dealing" is the Canadian equivalent of "fair use", following much of the same principles. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing_in_Canadian_copyr...

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