The Fair Use Checklist and variations on it have been widely used for many years to help educators, librarians, lawyers, and many other users of copyrighted works determine whether their activities ...

The guidelines described below apply to all University Libraries' reserve systems and are promulgated pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. The library will not knowingly make available any ...

Fair Use is legal code written into the United States law to provide a balance (under certain conditions) to a copyright holders exclusive rights. It is based upon a four-factor analysis of a proposed ...

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the rights holders. However, whether a specific use qualifies as fair use depends on several ...

The Berkman Center at Harvard University is considering a project that we hope will culminate in the widespread circulation of a Statement of Best Practices regarding fair use for teachers and ...

The document, available HERE, outlines not only the benefits to establishing copyright guidelines for these estimated millions of writings, recordings, and photographs whose rights holders are ...

When meteorologist Rob Fowler at WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C., read the picture book classic Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on air last week, he did exactly what Simon & Schuster hopes others will ...

Fair use has nothing to do with—and can’t be used to defend—DRM circumvention, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The arguments were made during the RealDVD hearing in San ...