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As I stated, fair use is up to interpretation and is not specifically designated by law.
The RIAA doesn't want you making any copies at all. They just know that wouldn't be enforced via current copyright law, hence the push to pass DMCA.

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Because we have a system that includes jurisprudence something can be legal and a matter of law without being written as A law. Fair use is a set of conceptual violations of copyright (ie making copies of copyrighted material) that have stood up in court as legal.

The RIAA doesn't want a lot of things. Different discussion. I'm perfectly happy to switch to that discussion but it is a very different discussion.