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{{cleanup|This page discusses only the laws of the United States of America.}}
''There are occasions when parts of a work still under [[Copyright]] [and [[Disney Owns This Trope|trademark]]] may be legally used or copied even without the copyright holder's permission.''
Unfortunately, even the courts -- which is where disagreements over Fair Use end up if they are sufficiently intractable -- are not always sure when those occasions are. Certain uses have been declared "fair"; other uses that may look similar are not.
The technical term from [[Copyright]] law to refer to something -- a book, a song, a motion picture, a computer program, a play, a photo, or anything else we consider art -- is "work"; this is one reason we use this term on this very wiki. The term "song," as used here, means the music or lyrics of a song as it was written and is typically printed ''on paper'' -- not anything you are actively listening to. A live performance of a song is called a "performance," and a recording of a song (on vinyl, tape, [[Optical Disc
In simple terms, "fair use"
The question of how much and what you can borrow as fair use has kept many lawyers and others awake at night, either because they're worried about whether a use of someone else's work is fair or because they're trying to argue that a use of their client's work is not fair.
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