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Re:High Court ruling implies headlines are copyright by j_baker on Saturday November 27, 2010 @07:01PM (#1946218)
Does the UK not have a concept of Fair Use? It would seem to me that quoting an article's headline would fall under that.
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Re:High Court ruling implies headlines are copyright by ig1 on Saturday November 27, 2010 @08:57PM (#1946407)
It has an approximately equivalent Fair Dealing, but in general fair dealing/fair use gives much weaker protection to commercial users than to personal or academic users.
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