Fair Comment

Fair comment is a legal term for a common law defense in defamation cases (libel or slander).

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    “A monk ther was, a fair for the maistrie,
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    A manly man, to been an abbot able.”
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    “Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can’t force it.”
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