With regard to all material reproduced in this PDF ebook, we are operating within the US’ fair use and the UK’s fair dealing copyright laws to the best of our understanding.
Please note that in attributing articles by linking them to their original source, should our readers visit them, they will be increasing the source website’s hit count and ranking. They may even subscribe.
US Fair Use Notice:
The material in this ebook PDF has been collected and provided for educational and informational purposes. All images used have either been purchased, used with permission, credited and linked back to their original sources or believed to be public domain/Creative Commons. It is believed that this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have an interest in using the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this PDF for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
This book is being distributed without profit. Donations are invited in recognition of the many months of hard work we have put into compiling That Was the Web That Was 2000, including collecting, presenting, archiving and formatting over 1000 links overall on over 500 pages of information conveyed in 175,000+ words. We recommend a donation of $14.95 US, which we consider reasonable – but the book is free.
UK Fair Dealing
“UK Copyright Fair Dealing Exceptions
In the UK, there are a number of ‘fair dealing’ exceptions to copyright law, which means that certain uses of an artistic work do not require permission from the copyright owner so long as the use is considered to be ‘fair’.
A similar concept – ‘fair use’ – exists in the US but it is a general defence. The UK ‘fair dealing’ is more limited than the United States doctrine of fair use. The terms ‘fair use’ and ‘fair dealing’ are not interchangeable – an exception that applies in the US may be regarded as an infringement in the UK.
Fair dealing requires a judgment to be made by whoever is carrying out the copying. Every case is different but generally speaking, if the use would not affect sales of the work and if the amount of the work copied is deemed reasonable and appropriate, then that use may be considered as fair.
Quotation, Criticism & Review
These can be considered two different exceptions or two distinct uses covered by the same exception: one for criticism & review and a more general one for quotation. It is allowed to use short extracts of copyright protected works for the purposes of criticism & review, but it will have to be a genuine critique by way of discussion or assessment.
It is possible to use quotation for other purposes than criticism & review such as using a short quote in a history book or an academic article. There is a lot of overlap between the two exceptions and both apply to all types of copyright works.
News Reporting
To report on current events of national or international importance, reporters may sometimes require the use of copyright materials such as short textual extracts or short clips from video footage. The exception does NOT apply to photographs. An event is ‘current’ if it deals with a present issue.
Parody, caricature and pastiche
Parody, caricature and pastiche refers to a new creative work which is referencing and making use of various existing works to generate new social commentary for humour or ridicule. The exception introduced in 2014 allows individuals to use copyright protected materials for the purpose of ‘parody, caricature and pastiche’ without having to obtain permission from the original author.
UK Fair Dealing Statement
With regard to fair dealing, there are no “sales” of this work. We are making this work [a new form of social commentary] freely available on the internet, on our own website [not social media] and inviting donations in recognition of the time and labour we have spent putting it together. We have also suggested readers donate to the archive site.
We respect the hard work of others and all publications’ copyright. We have taken short excerpts all under 250 words and linked to original sources for attribution. Again, we are not charging money for this work: we would not profit off others’ work.
Criticism and review: our excerpts are short. We offer with the “O2CW” comments plenty of criticism and review. Depending on the definition of review, everything in this ebook arguably is review because in 2024 we are referring to and commenting on articles written in the past.
News Reporting: Current news reporting in 2024 covers many names seen in this collection: Puff Daddy and Jaz-Z; Donald Trump; Hillary Clinton; Bill Gates; Elon Musk; Tony Blair; to name but a few. This ebook augments current news reporting
Parody, caricature and pastiche: This ebook is, “a new creative work which is referencing and making use of various existing works to generate new social commentary for humour or ridicule.” All of our “O2CW” commentary is just that. We make “humourous” [depending on your sense of humour] references to “msm scaremongering”. We’ve used humorous images. The ebook could also be considered to have generated a “new form of social commentary” in that it has not been done before.
Justification
There is a clear need to preserve in the public interest the news items and articles listed in this collection. In recent months we the public have been warned repeatedly by governments and NGOs that some kind of undefined “cyber attack” is going to occur. We saw a spate of them in June 2024. So what is going to be lost?
For example, World Economic Forum members have made threats against our online interests. In 2021 Klaus Schwab warned that we don’t take the threat of “comprehensive” cyber attacks seriously enough and at Davos 2023 we were told by a WEF representative [at 01:43 in the video] that “Web 2.0 and social media, turned out we got that wrong.”
How then will these globalists and war criminals seek to rectify their mistakes? They hate us and the web: we can’t on the basis of evidence trust them to leave it alone so TWtWTW is an effort to preserve a few facts by means of a PDF. We don’t want to see our history “reset” or wiped out.
Selective sourcing of news in order to comply with copyright laws
We have made every effort to observe copyright laws as we understand them. Above and beyond the methods detailed above e.g. attribution, we have deliberately made extensive use of the UK’s msm Guardian newspaper and BBC websites because both are provided free of charge in the public domain and considered reliable “academic” sources. While this book is UK-centric, we have also drawn on many US news sites and others to provide context.
Please also note our statement in the ebook’s introduction that when using “conspiracy” articles, we avoid drawing on large sites like rense.com because we have no intention of infringing their copyright.
Disclaimer: All material has been presented “as is”. We do not guarantee the accuracy or validity of any of it.