[mrbabbage]

I realize the headline is designed to be attention-grabbing, but "lie" is pretty strong given the warning's actual text.

Could the warning be better phrased? Almost certainly—it's a four-sentence digest, designed for a lay audience, of an incredibly complicated area of law (copyright fair use). But the warning itself is completely accurate: There are conditions where reproducing a copyrighted work (which otherwise infringe's the owner's exclusive right of reproduction) is acceptable. And "one of these specified conditions" (quoting from the warning) is for scholarship. It's not the only such condition!

To me, this feels like the author is making a mountain out of a molehill.