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Re:Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same by dragonwriter on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:00AM (#31945194)
> True, the contrast here would be e.g. copyright law as usually found in EU states, where the are actual, enumerated lists of exceptions to copyright.

How is that a contrast? The US has an actual, enumerated list of exceptions (the US term is “limitations on exclusive rights”, of which fair use is, in the US Code order, the first.)

See the section headings in Title 17, Chapter 1: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/chapter-1

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Re:Open source body quits GitHub, urges you to do the same by formerly_proven on Friday July 01, 2022 @08:07AM (#31945271)
Fair use itself is open-ended, and not enumerated. US law has fair use and other limitations. In contrast, EU law does not have open-ended limitations, but only the fixed, enumerated limitations. So I don't get your point here - US law leaves significant room for interpreting limitations on copyright via fair use. EU law doesn't.
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