Item Favoring Fair Use
No significant effect on the market or potential market for copyrighted work
Explanation
Many people are under the mistaken impression that they cannot violate copyright law if they do not make any money from the copies they made. However, copyright law is not concerned about whether or not you profit from the copies. The law is concerned about the lose of profit suffered by the copyright owner.
If you read an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education one morning and decide to copy it for your afternoon class, it is unlikely that the newspaper is going to lose any subscriptions as the result of your copies. Therefore, you are causing no significant effect on the market.
