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This is an important point to keep in mind. While the contours vary and a lot of people have wrong ideas, the basic notion of fair use is not legal, but normalized. "Hey, listen to this couple of lines of the song, the lyrics are awful" is fair use.
The Questionable AuthorityThe thing about most fair uses is that mostly you never need to litigate them, often because they're kinda recognized as areas that are outside what copyright is there to do.