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fair uses

fair uses is the plural of fair use.

Meaning of fair use

Noun

fair use (countable and uncountable, plural fair uses)

  1. A doctrine in intellectual property law that permits one party to make use of another party's protected intellectual property (such as a copyright or trademark) under narrowly defined circumstances.
    1. Use of another party's intellectual property that is protected by this doctrine.
      • Many commentators have argued that training AI with copyrighted material constitutes “fair use”2023 August 19, Alex Reisner, “Revealed: The Authors Whose Pirated Books Are Powering Generative AI”, in The Atlantic

Questions about fair uses

What is fair uses the plural of?
Fair uses is the plural of fair use.

Words near fair uses in the dictionary

  1. fair trades
  2. fair trial
  3. fair trials
  4. fair up
  5. fair use
  6. fair uses
  7. fair value
  8. fair values
  9. fair warning
  10. fair warnings
  11. fair weather

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fair uses (page history and authors); fair use (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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