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Intellectual property is not private property to begin with. The fair use doctrine (and constitutional right) proves that. If society's particular specific use of a work outweighs the rightsholder's monopoly on its distribution, it can be ruled as such and whoever is making that fair use can continue and won't be penalized.


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