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Fair Use
Fair use is part of U.S. copyright law,officially integrated in 1976, allowing limited free usage of copyrighted material. Typically, provisions are for use with education, such as distributing works to discuss with students, or review, citing passages while critiquing a work. The law allows for four considerations to be made; whether work is for commercial use, what the copyrighted work is, how much of the copyrighted work is used, and what effect this usage has on its market value or marketability. Modern technology has made this a more important issue, as it has become much easier to quickly upload and distribute copyrighted works using high-speed connections and peer-to-peer services, or even simple website hosting of copyrighted works.
10 common myths about copyright law and the internet are
discussed and explained.
Copyright
and Fair Use in the Classroom, on the Internet, and the World Wide Web
An example of how a university library system approaches
fair use policy, outlining what elements of their reference materials
can be
copied, and how.
Copyright Law
of the United States of America
The section of U.S. law allowing for fair use.
Fair Use and Free
Speech
A video discussing fair use in relation to documentaries.
Fair
Use Exception & Fair
Use Checklist
The University of Georgia copyright policy system includes
its own checklist for fair use, with the self-prescribed method of
measuring
different pros and cons of fair use, and allowing fair use if the pros
outweigh
the cons.
Fair Use in a
Nutshell
A good checklist of facts to remember about fair use, which
also stresses that when in doubt about the legality of something, ask a
professional.
Google Books
A search tool capable of finding uploaded books that can be
read online. Some texts have portions omitted by request from a
publisher,
others are fully available.
Is Google Book
Search Fair Use?
A presentation about Google book search and fair use.
MPAA:
teachers should videotape monitors, not rip DVDs & MPAA shows how to videorecord a TV set
The MPAA has stated that teachers should use camcorders to
record low-quality copies of material they want to show in their
classes. The
accompanying video clip was shown at the DMCA 1201 hearings in the
Copyright
Office of the Library of Congress, featuring comparisons between the
video
quality of various recording/copying styles.
Rulemaking
on Anticircumvention
The U.S. Copyright Office webpage devoted to the hearings
surrounding copyright exemption.
What
fair use? Three strikes and you're out... of YouTube
A problem arising due to video sharing services such as
youtube, people reviewing media are sometimes given
takedown notices
by
request of copyright holders. Questions have arisen over where a line
can be
drawn between offering up complete reproductions of a film, and a video
supplying film snippets as a means of visualization and discussion.
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