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Fair Use:
Quote:
In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include:
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
2. the nature of the copyrighted work;
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
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1. The Cellar is not an official 501(c)3 non-profit organization, but it is still roughly a nonprofit educational site. We have that going for us, although google ads on the IotD blog view get us $20 each month, so someone may not agree with that.
2. Is it 20 years old and nobody looks at it? Or is it a fresh news story that we've just blatantly stolen?
3. Did we just blatantly copy the whole thing? Or did we select 20 seconds of a song, or two paragraphs of a story?
4. Because we copied, are people less likely to seek out the original? Including the link to the original makes it more likely, so always do that.
The sense of it is: money-making pics might be dropped or made smaller; money-making stories should be summarized or cut.