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What is fair use?

Basically, it allows us to use copyrighted works under certain conditions and for certain purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching, and parody. Why not watch this video created by Eric Faden using fair use provisions that uses Disney characters to explain what fair use is. There is also a transcript (Provided by Penn State).

The ALA Fair Use Evaluator below is designed to help you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the US Copyright Code. The tool will help you collect, organize and archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation by providing you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.

 

Creative Commons, Some Rights Reserved Local Copyright Information © 2008 Michael Brewer & ALA Office for Information Technology This page also includes material from the Copyright Perspectives blog from Penn State at http://copyright.psu.edu/fairuse/.