>You start your research with the basics: what exactly is Fair Dealing? It turns out that fair dealing is an exhaustive list of exceptions to Canadian copyright law. It means that there are some activities that just don't count as copyright infringement. But it's a pretty short list. It includes research and private study, criticism and review, news reporting, and assorted academic purposes. Many of the exceptions have requirements about attribution, too. You find that American copyright law has different exceptions. Their list is bigger and grows from time to time. It includes parody, transformative use (using parts of one work to create something new), time shifting, media shifting and reverse engineering. You're beginning to understand why more Canadians are being kidnapped.
You lean back, thinking things over.
Do you keep working
or break for lunch?