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Originally Posted by Boffin
FYI: Section 107 of the Copyright Act, which provides that fair use of a work “for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use, scholarship, or research)” is not an infringement of copyright.
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Really not my point at all. Copyright law allows exactly what you stated. In such a case you should cite the source of what you are using, not present it as your own work. Secondly, this website, TOTV, has its own rule about using copyrighted material which is stricter than the prohibition on general use. There is no question the material you presented as your own was copyrighted. There is no question that you did not excerpt a small part of the work, rather you presented the entire body of someone else's work as your own without any attribution or credit to the real author.
And there is no question that you did not conform to the rules of this website regarding use of copyrighted material even if you may not have violated the Federal laws, which by the way, also say that fair use does not generally mean using the entire article.
From your link:
" If the use includes a large portion of the copyrighted work, fair use is less likely to be found;"