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> Fair use doesn't exist in EU.

This matter is country-level, internal to Ireland. In Ireland, they have http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing See, for example, notes here http://www.poetryireland.ie/resources/copyright.html under ``Reproducing copyrighted material'', which mentions a citation of 5% of magazine article falls under Fair Dealing protection.

I don't know whether there's EU-wide fair use, but there seems to be in member countries. For example, in my home Poland, we have http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozwolony_użytek

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