Dictionary

fair use en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.
2. (countable, uncountable) A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances. ▸ Use of another party's intellectual property that is protected by this doctrine.
   • Alsup ruled that Anthropic's use of copyrighted books to train its AI models was "exceedingly transformative" and qualified as fair use, a legal doctrine that allows certain uses of copyrighted works without the copyright owner's permission. 2025 June 25, Lee Chong Ming, “Anthropic cut up millions of used books to train Claude — and downloaded over 7 million pirated ones too, a judge said”, in Business Insider:
   • Many commentators have argued that training AI with copyrighted material constitutes “fair use” 2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic:

Forms

Coordinates

fair dealing · fair dealing

Translations (13)

fi kohtuullinen käyttö (doctrine in intellectual property law) · hy ազատ օգտագործում (doctrine in intellectual property law) · es uso legítimo (doctrine in intellectual property law) · ro utilizare cinstită (doctrine in intellectual property law) · ko 공정 이용 (doctrine in intellectual property law) · cmn 合理使用 (doctrine in intellectual property law) · hi उचित उपयोग (doctrine in intellectual property law) · az ədalətli istifadə (doctrine in intellectual property law) · vi sử dụng hợp lý (doctrine in intellectual property law) · az insaflı istifadə (doctrine in intellectual property law) · fr usage équitable (doctrine in intellectual property law) · ja フェアユース (doctrine in intellectual property law) · es uso justo (doctrine in intellectual property law)