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 * Why was it created?**

The Fair Use Law under the Copyright Act was originally created with the integrity of academic policies in mind. The idea was that students and educators would be prohibited from unfairly using or making copies of documents originally created by others without the consent of the creator for the classroom purpose.



**Time/Text limits of fair use.** Generally, the less information that is taken directly from a book, the more likely the information as a whole will be considered "fairly used". For example, a few sentences from the text for a book review would not considered unfairly used. Slightly in contrary with the last statement, the use of fewer than 400 words from President Ford's memoir by a political opinion magazine was interpreted as unfair use or infringement because they were considered to represent the main ideas of the book as a whole and therefore deemed too substantial. According to this last example the text cannot represent a substantial idea from the main source or the information as a whole will be considered to be an infringement. As is evident, the secondary information is therefore directly relative to each secondary party and each primary party's information as a whole.

Justia, NOLO. "Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center." //Stanford Copyright & Fair Use Center//. Stanford University Libraries and Academic Information Resources, n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2011. 

"The Law: Fair Use." //Website Copyright//. N.p., n.d. Web. 10 Jan. 2011. .