What is the equivalent to &quot;fair use&quot; in Europe?
<p>I'm preparing to publish an open source library. </p>

<p>In order to research local law, I wanted to know if there is an equivalent term for the USA "fair use" in European law?</p>

<p>The United Kingdom and common-law countries generally use the concept of <a href="https://www.uleth.ca/lib/copyright/content/fair_dealing_week/fair_dealing_vs_fair_use.asp" rel="noreferrer">fair dealing</a>.</p>

<p>The EU doesn't really have a doctrine analogous to fair use. Instead, it has a list of explicitly permitted uses (<a href="https://www.ippt.eu/legal-texts/copyright-in-information-society-directive/article-5" rel="noreferrer">Article 5 of the Information Society Directive</a>), and its courts are generally very resistant to the adoption of fair-use analyses.</p>

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