And since copyright is a civil infraction and can only generate damages (which are non-existent for any fair use usage as pertaining to the US definition), there was no need to encode "fair use" into copyright law in the UK.
However, when RIAA and their UK arm leant on the lawmakers in the UK, they only asked (and got) a criminal offense update to copyright law and "forgot" to update the coverage of fair use/dealing.
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Post: Fair dealing is not the whole picture
Mark
Fair dealing is not the whole picture →
Posted Friday 11th July 2008 15:45 GMT
In Gadgets safe from global airport anti-piracy plan
There's also the turning copy.
And since copyright is a civil infraction and can only generate damages (which are non-existent for any fair use usage as pertaining to the US definition), there was no need to encode "fair use" into copyright law in the UK.
However, when RIAA and their UK arm leant on the lawmakers in the UK, they only asked (and got) a criminal offense update to copyright law and "forgot" to update the coverage of fair use/dealing.