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Absolutely.

First, let's get it out of the way that copyrights are used by their owners for economic gain all the time, which is what the law was designed to do. Protected materials can also be licensed for use by others who intend to make a profit from them: when there's a Mattel toy in a Happy Meal, Mattel isn't the only company making money from it, and when a movie plays in a theater, the theater, the distributor, and the studio are all getting something from that.

But in addition to that, the limitations, defenses, and exceptions included in the law allow a lot of unlicenseduses generally assumed to be non-commercial, but not exclusively. See the link below for a study on the economic benefits of the exploitation of fair use in the US (however, please note that this is a rather one-sided approach, to which content owners will almost entirely disagree).

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