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Originally Posted by TGS
Is that true or is it that publishers have given a general permission for a certain proportion of the books they publish to be copied for specific purposes?
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I meant that fair use allows a certain amount of copying without permission. Exactly how much, you get to find out by getting sued and going to court; there's no hard guidelines.
Some publishers say, "no part of this may be copied [blah blah] except for short excerpts in reviews," as a nod to fair use. But that's not accurate either--the amount that can be copied, and for what purposes, are not fixed, and the publisher doesn't get to decide the exact details.
For example, a parody could use extensive character & place details from the original. A critical analysis could grab whole paragraphs, possibly a whole chapter, if it were reviewed in detail and the whole chapter was necessary to allow that. According to the "NO COPIES AT ALL" statements, a parent can't even read the book aloud to their kids.