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Fair use doesn’t allow you to pirate the source material in the first place, even if your parody or commentary constitutes fair use. It sounds to me like Meta committed 195,000 acts of copyright violation for commercial purposes. What is $250,000 x 195,000 in criminal penalties?

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> Fair use doesn’t allow you to pirate the source material in the first place, even if your parody or commentary constitutes fair use.

Why wouldn't it? While the two instances (the initial acquisition of the copy and the actual use of that copy) are analyzed separately, they're still both ultimately copyright infringment.

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