Good Reasons for Fair Use

You are making a productive use of someone else’s creativity in which the other person’s creativity is an indispensable component:

• Example 1:  Literary criticism.  You must quote an author’s work in order to critique it.

• Example 2:  Parody.  You must use some elements of an author’s work in order to satirize it.

You are engaged in one of the public interest activities that Congress has explicitly recognized:

• Criticism, Comment
• News reporting
• Teaching, scholarship, or research

What you are doing has no commercial impact on the author, not even a lost opportunity