fair dealing

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fair dealing (uncountable)

  1. (law) a rule of intellectual property law, such as in the United Kingdom and various Commonwealth countries, that permits one party to make use of another party's copyright-protected work under narrowly defined circumstances.
    Coordinate term: fair use (counterpart in US, broader but akin)
    • Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, Section 30(1):
      Fair dealing with a work for the purpose of criticism or review, of that or another work or of a performance of a work, does not infringe any copyright in the work provided that it is accompanied by a sufficient acknowledgement.