How to Use fair use in a Sentence

fair use

noun
  • Already, there are signs that their ideas about fair use are gaining traction.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 22 Nov. 2023
  • But the heart of the conflict, what is trademarked and what is fair use, is nothing new.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 18 July 2024
  • The doctrine of fair use was crafted in an era of ink and printing presses.
    — Aron Solomon june 27, Literary Hub, 27 June 2025
  • What happens if fair use expands so much that all samples are covered?
    — Dina Lapolt, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2018
  • In that case, the justices effectively reined in the scope of fair use.
    — Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Sep. 2023
  • Any major lawsuit in which judges refute fair use claims are thus closely watched.
    — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
  • This same tension exists, for much the same reason, in fair use cases.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Jan. 2020
  • All this falls under fair use, at least for the duration, is the thinking here.
    — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 26 Mar. 2020
  • Or, a startup that mined a carmaker’s blueprints and claimed fair use.
    — Gerard Scimeca, Mercury News, 7 Nov. 2025
  • 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 district argued that their use of the passage qualified as a fair use.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Some cases will turn on complex legal issues like the doctrine of fair use.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 22 Dec. 2020
  • White Perch – fair using worm on humps and ledges in 8 to 11 feet of water.
    — Tyler Mahoney, kansascity, 30 May 2018
  • The motion argues that Trump should escape the lawsuit on fair use grounds.
    — Eriq Gardner, Billboard, 12 Nov. 2020
  • The court held that the use of the photograph constituted fair use.
    — Ariane De Vogue, CNN, 28 Mar. 2022
  • All in all, the fair use scorecard came out 2-1-1 in favor of the district.
    — Jack Greiner, The Enquirer, 16 Mar. 2022
  • 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
  • The sole dissenter was Jarvis, who argued against limiting fair use.
    — Benj Edwards, Ars Technica, 11 Jan. 2024
  • And that actually does sort of a fair use summary and a proper link out.
    — 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
  • 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
  • Would this afford them stronger protections under the law related to fair use and free speech?
    — David Wingrave, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • The companies have fought back, arguing that the AI songs are fair use.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 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
  • 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
  • So some of the face match results may be false positives from channels that have used a short clip under fair use guidelines.
    — ArsTechnica, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The goal of fair use is to balance a system of incentives so that the kind of work our culture needs is rewarded.
    — Alex Reisner, The Atlantic, 14 July 2025
  • That’s connected to the first factor of a fair use analysis, which weighs the character of the use.
    — ArsTechnica, 26 June 2025
  • The underlying logic is the same on the fair use defense to dilution.
    — Ashley Cullins, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023

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