__Limitations and exceptions to copyright__ are provisions, in local copyright law or Berne Convention, which allow for copyrighted works to be used without a license from the copyright owner- wikipedia 
Limitations and exceptions to copyright relate to a number of important considerations such as market failure, freedom of speech, education and equality of access (such as by the visually impaired). Some view limitations and exceptions as "user rights" - seeing user rights as providing an essential balance to the rights of the copyright owners.
> There is no consensus among copyright experts as to whether user rights are rights or simply limitations on copyright.
The concept of user rights has been recognised by courts, including the Canadian Supreme Court, which classed fair dealing as such a user right. These kinds of disagreements in philosophy are quite common in the philosophy of copyright, where debates about jurisprudential reasoning tend to act as proxies for more substantial disagreements about good policy.
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