It Doesn’t Mean What You Think it Means

For the record, Fair Use means that you can quote brief excerpts from copyrighted material for the purpose of criticism, news reporting, teaching, or research. It does NOT mean that you can steal copyrighted characters and put them in your own web series. Nor is it a magic phrase that protects you from the consequences of any and all kinds of copyright infringement you may have comitted, as many people seem to believe.