What is fair dealing?
Answer
Fair dealing is a user’s right in copyright law permitting use of, or “dealing” with, a copyright protected work without permission or payment of copyright royalties. The fair dealing exception in the Copyright Act allows you to use other people’s copyright protected material for the purpose of research, private study, education, satire, parody, criticism, review or news reporting, provided that what you do with the work is ‘fair’. If your purpose is criticism, review or news reporting, you must also mention the source and author of the work for it to be fair dealing.
South Africa has no law against how much of the work you can use, users are encouraged to guard against depriving the copyright owners of an income, because that will be an infringement of copyright law. Under Fair Dealing, users cannot make multiple copies of a work.