Fair Dealing Week 2024
Leeds Beckett University
By Library and Student Services | 05 February 2024
What is Fair Dealing? You might also have heard the term “Fair Use”, the equivalent legal term in the USA. Whenever you’re using copyrighted material, whether it’s with the permission of the copyright holder or under an exemption, your use must be “Fair Dealing” – namely the amount you’re using has to feel fair to the copyright holder. For example, using a whole copyrighted journal article as part of an academic work probably wouldn’t be fair to the copyright holder. Using sections of an author’s argument to convey their position, referring it to wider scholarship or developing your own argument in response to their position, would probably be fair use.
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