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include component="editors" days="30" imageSize="large" showUsername="true" The fair use law was made to counter the copyright infrigment law because in some cases people are not stealing information for a profit but taking it to use in a school lesson or a non profit way. The fair use law is when you are allowed to use copyrighted information for purposes such critique, court, school, articles, and news. Fair use is anything that also does not have a profit when using copyrighted materials. The fair use is based on these four criteria: 1) The purpose of the information use including wether it is used for commercial purposes or education. 2) The nature of the work that you are using. 3) The ratio of the work used to the amount of all the work in the copyrighted material. 4) The effect of the use on the value of the copyrighted work.

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