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Is a private individual shopping for personal goods from companies "non-commercial"?

Suppose Alice is interested in buying something for her personal use, completely unrelated to her work or making money. She investigates the products produced by Bob Inc. and Charlie Corp., both for-...
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Does the UK text and data mining exception to copyright allow non-commercial projects free use of anything on the internet to train their models?

On the UK government page on Exceptions to copyright the text and data mining exception is described as: Text and data mining is the use of automated analytical techniques to analyse text and data ...
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Does the UK time-shifting exception to copyright allow viewing beyond the end of a subscription period?

On the UK government page on Exceptions to copyright the time-shifting exception is described as: A recording of a broadcast can be made in domestic premises for private and domestic use to enable it ...
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Is it legal to record streaming video for time shifting?

In the UK there is an explicit exception to copyright for the purpose of time shifting: Details of the exceptions to copyright that allow limited use of copyright works without the permission of the ...
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Fair use for a free online school notes [UK]

We are working a project for a website which will offer free notes, and we don't plan on selling them, although we may use advertising at one point to help pay for the domain etc. However, we were ...
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Fair use of text snippets in a dictionary

If a dictionary (about the use of scientific terminology) includes snippets from several sources, would an authorization be needed from each copyright holder? Each entry in the dictionary would ...
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