"Fair Use" Not in OED

[Barnhart]

I have repeated the two fair uses posited by Dennis until I can no longer
feel sure of a distinction, if I ever did.

Is this a matter of stress and juncture?  Is there something akin to white
house and white house or light house and lighthouse.

Regards,
David

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>How do we know when a term is a term. If I said
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>"He didn't make very fair use of his background advantages among his
>schoolmates" I take that not to be a term.
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>But if I say
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>"That's not in accordance with the fair use principle of copyright."
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>it is.
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>Might not the 1847 use be part of the birth of a term rather than a
>term itself? How can we tell the difference between a completely
>transparent collocation and its emergence as a term?
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>Just thinkin.
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>dInIs
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>>         I understand that the term is used in Curtis, A Treatise on
>the
>>Law of Copyright 236 - 37 (1847), in the chapter on Infringement of
>>Copyright, the first paragraph of which reportedly includes this
>>passage:  "[W]e must bear in mind that while the primary object
>of the
>>law of copyright is protection to the product of all literary labor,
>the
>>interests of knowledge demand a reasonable freedom in the use of all
>>antecedent literature. To administer the law in such a manner as not
>to
>>curtail the fair use of existing materials, in any department of
>>letters, is one of the great tasks of jurisprudence."
>>
>>
>>John Baker
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>>From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On
>Behalf
>>Of Fred Shapiro
>>Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 8:50 AM
>>To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
>>Subject: "Fair Use" Not in OED
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>>The copyright law term _fair use_ is not in OED.  The coinage is said
>to
>>occur in the case of Lawrence v. Dana, 15 Fed. Cas. 26 (1869).
>>
>>Fred Shapiro
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