Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance
by 0x8BADF00D on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:15PM
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In your example, you could just add one extra page which critiques the entire series and that would fall under fair use. You could literally put “After reading these books it’s shit and the writer is a hack”. Totally fair game.
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Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance
by greggyb on Monday April 27, 2020 @05:57PM
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Fair use is not that simple, and the original authors would most likely win a suit against such a "critique".
Typically the defense of fair use would apply to a work that excerpts from a larger work. Copying the original work in whole is going to be very hard to justify.
Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance
by mondoshawan on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:58PM
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No, not at all. There are very clear very specific cases of what constitutes fair use in the written word case such as a book. Look it up.
Re:I made an E-book compiling the best of r/personalfinance
by basch on Monday April 27, 2020 @11:32PM
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Fair use is like a guilty plea. You're saying "yes I violated the authors copyright, but I should be allowed to." Then a judge decides if you're right. They use a test, and much of the criteria is a spectrum. However commercial use is more binary. You charge for something, you lose points.
Is this work transformative?