CHAPTER 14
Fair Dealing, Moral Rights, and More: A Conversation with Hubert Best
While “fair use” is unique to U.S. copyright law, there is a related concept, “fair dealing,” especially among member states of the Commonwealth of Nations. Primarily, fair dealing applies to spot news (the ability, for instance, to quote the work of someone in the course of broadcasting an obituary), quotations or citations, parody and certain classroom and educational uses. No country in the world is more permissive than the United States when it comes to fair use, largely because of its unique constitutional protection of speech.
However, while fair dealing is often quite limited, in European Union countries it may be further trumped by “the moral rights of ...
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