| > Note, however, that there is no world-wide principle of fair use; what kinds of use are considered “fair” varies from country to country. Exactly the point I came to make. The Authors’ Guild is a US entity, and so is Google, so only US law applies. And thus, we have the Fair Use exception. But developers sharing code on GitHub come from and live all over the world. Now, Github’s ToS do include the usual provision stating that US & California law applies, et cætera, et cætera [1], but… and even they acknowledge it may be the case, such provisions usually aren’t considered legal outside of the US. So… developers from outside the US, in countries with less lenient exceptions to copyright, definitely could sue them. Identifying these countries and finding those developers, however, is a different matter altogether. [1]: https://docs.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o... |