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It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is. -- Rachel Sklar
What is fair use? Fair use is not a law. There's nothing in law. -- Jack Valenti
There is no fair use to take something that doesn't belong to you. That's not fair use. -- Jack Valenti
Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use, Revolts from true birth stumbling on abuse. -- William Shakespeare
My music should fall under fair use because it's transformative, it's becoming its own entity, and it's not negatively impacting anyone's sales. -- Girl Talk
Media companies, under the guise of piracy, are asking congress to give them more control over fair use. Hollywood wants to control innovation. -- Joe Kraus
Fair use is important to innovators as well as consumers. It's fair use that allowed the VCR to innovate on top of the television. -- Joe Kraus
Fair use is a part of United States copyright law. You don't know if it falls under fair use until you go to court. Someone has to sue you and then you have to challenge it. -- Girl Talk
Just let me use the technology I want at a fair price. -- Jonathan Potter
It is better to use fair means and fail, than foul and conquer. -- Sallust
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I would like to electrocute everyone who uses the word 'fair' in connection with income tax policies. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
I used desperately to want to be a brooding hero from literature, but I'm optimistic, healthy and fair-haired. -- Nick Harkaway
It is better to have a fair intellect that is well used than a powerful one that is idle. -- Bryant H. McGill
No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable. -- Ferdinand Mount
Use of a mentally ill person's involuntary confession is antithetical to the notion of fundamental fairness embodied in the due process clause. -- William J. Brennan, Jr.
Fair use is always going to be a gray area, and it should be. We need to allow for things we can't see yet. -- Robin Gross
Put simply, the doctrine of 'Fair Use' applies to content republished from copyrightable material and how much of that content is, literally, fair to use. -- Rachel Sklar
We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly. -- Rick Wagoner
Melbourne is wonderfully altered since I last saw it. There are some very fair buildings in it now, and things are a little cheaper than they used to be. -- William John Wills
Personally, I would say the 'master' of this whole thing is fate... Whoever is on the playing field is fair game, and it's up to them to avoid being used. -- Cliff Burton
But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did. The speed of the game has changed. -- Ivan Lendl
If people use Chrome, we make less money on our service and that's fine by us because that is fair competition. I wouldn't put Google on a pedestal for competition, but they aren't telling users not to use OpenDNS. -- David Ulevitch
We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre. -- Dick Gregory
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of that equation than on the other. -- Jesse Ventura
So it is fair enough that you are paying me what I ask for, because it is my name you are using to sell the film. If the producer gives me a guarantee that he will sell the film at a lower price to the distributors, fair enough, then I will charge less! -- Ajay Devgan
We need to lower tax rates for everybody, starting with the top corporate tax rate. We need to simplify the tax code. The ultimate answer, in my opinion, is the fair tax, which is a fair tax for everybody, because as long as we still have this messed-up tax code, the politicians are going to use it to reward winners and losers. -- Herman Cain
Wisdom is an artful method"?a skillful, tactical, fair, and diplomatic use of knowledge. -- Greg Koukl
British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray! -- Jimmy Carr
It's not fair to use movies that weren't creatively successful as a reason why something won't work. -- Christopher Meledandri
We need fair rules of the road, so big corporations can't use their power to gain unfair advantages. -- Hillary Clinton
Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me. -- Jeff Lindsay
I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school. -- George Carlin
The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly. -- William Shakespeare
We believe in fair exchange rates and Japan doesn't practice that. They have massive U.S. dollar reserves, and they use them to intervene regularly. -- Rick Wagoner
Nothing is of greater importance in time of war than in knowing how to make the best use of a fair opportunity when it is offered. -- Niccolo Machiavelli

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