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Originally Posted by DawnFalcon
Because that's how the copyright law works. It's shades of grey. Fair Use/Dealing is a defence which has to be tested in each case, not a right per-se: the rights are on the side of the copyright holder, who is limited in the situations in which he can exert those rights by fair use/dealing.
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Exactly. That is why even a company like Google that could have poured millions into defense of their Google Book scans as fair use was instead willing to settle and payout millions to those who claimed copyright infringement.