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Type of fair use in US copyright law

In United States copyright law, transformative use or transformation is a type of fair use that builds on a copyrighted work in a different manner or for a different purpose from the original, and thus does not infringe its holder's copyright. Transformation is an important issue in deciding whether a use meets the first factor of the fair use test, and is generally critical for determining whether a use is in fact fair, although no one factor is dispositive. Wikipedia →

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  1. Read the overview: Transformative useA 5-minute orientation
  2. Skim a recent paper: Enhancing the transformative potential of interventions for the sustainable use of natural resourcesInfluential work since 2022
  3. Pick up a classic book: Manifestoes and transformations in the early modernist cityThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  4. Read the landmark paper: The use of fast Fourier transform for the estimation of power spectra: A method based on time averaging over short, modified periodogramsCited 11,004 times
  5. Go sideways: Derivative workA closely related topic
  6. Go sideways: Fair useA closely related topic

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