[License-discuss] Fair Use

Florian Weimer fw at deneb.enyo.de
Tue Sep 24 10:20:29 UTC 2019


* Lawrence Rosen:

> I wrote the following article for Linux Journal in 2002. Perhaps it
> will help you? At least my article refers to some court cases where
> legal opinions about fair use were expressed.

> https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6080

This article does not explicitly mention that Fair Use is very
specific to certain jurisdictions and by far not universally
recognized.  Any argument based on Fair Use risks imposing a
U.S.-centric view, and I think OSI should have a broader focus.



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