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Copyright abuse and fair use

Fair use is the artistical modification of a bit of content be it a still img, video clip of audio track.  This is fully legal for anyone to do as long as it does not impair the holders profits. Abuses have been done when the profits are not impaired, the artist is not taking profit them self from the edited work, the artist has direct written permission from the original auther.  In these cases the artist being claimed against usually lacks the finances's to fight back against the false claims in which they will win if held under an official court.  How ever it gets worse, the claimed often does not have to bring the small claims to court and can handle outside of court in a Tribunal in which now the claimed holds all the cards despite the artist having full legal rights. Now get this, the cost the claimer is going for these small claims often exceeds any potential profit they could have obtained.  Avg length of content falsely claimed is less than 10sec, the claimer is pa