Here are some resources to help you celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week on your campus:
- Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week logos and brand guide
- Infographics
- Calendar of Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week events
- Blog posts on fair use/fair dealing
The Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week logos or word marks should not be used to imply or suggest endorsement of any product or service not approved by the coordinators of Fair Use Week. Please follow the specifications provided in the Fair Use Brand Guide (PDF) when implementing the Fair Use Week logo or word mark.
Official image files of the Fair Use Week logo and Fair Dealing Week logo are available for download.
University of Colorado Boulder
The University Libraries recognize Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2021 as an important opportunity for the campus community to learn more about the Fair Use doctrine. Test your knowledge by taking our new interactive quiz, “Is it Fair Use? It Depends!“
Red River College
IS YOUR COPYING FAIR DEALING?
Use this tool as a guideline to help determine whether the fair dealing exception in the Copyright Act may apply to your copying.
Learn more: https://library.rrc.ca/fairdealingtool?_ga=2.158720762.1928739084.1614115833-406212080.1614115833
University at Albany Libraries
What is Fair Use???
Fair Use: Section 107 of the U.S. Code
Fair use is the use of copyrighted material, without the holder’s permission, for purposes such as teaching, preparation for teaching, scholarship, research, criticism/comment/parody and news reporting.
Read the LibGuide: https://libguides.library.albany.edu/c.php?g=560782&p=3858865
Authors Alliance
This Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, we’re featuring a selection of resources and articles to help authors understand and apply fair use.
Learn more: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2021/02/23/fair-use-week-2021-resource-roundup/
Dalhousie University
Under the Copyright Act, express permission of the copyright owner is required before making copies or distributing works, with some exceptions. These guidelines outline the framework for operating under one of these exceptions – “fair dealing” for the purposes of research, private study, review, criticism or news reporting, education, parody and satire. These guidelines outline the limits and requirements for making paper and electronic copies of a portion of a published work by individuals for their own use, by faculty for use in their courses of study and by libraries for the use of their patrons.
Learn more: https://libraries.dal.ca/services/copyright-office/fair-dealing/fair-dealing-guidelines.html
Authors Alliance
Authors Alliance is gathering feedback from authors about Controlled Digital Lending (“CDL”) in order to strengthen our advocacy work and better represent your interests. Several of our members have already shared their views on how CDL helps authors and researchers, and we are now asking you to add your voice by completing this short form.
Learn more: https://www.authorsalliance.org/2021/02/22/call-to-action-share-why-you-support-controlled-digital-lending/
Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL)
In this paper, we argue that while fair dealing is not a carbon copy of fair use, it is similar enough that many of the principles and limitations set out in the many codes of best practices in fair use published in the United States would be applicable in the Canadian context.
University of New Brunswick Libraries
You probably make use of fair dealing every day without even realizing it! Whether emailing a news article to a friend, using a clip from a song, using a copyrighted image on social media, or quoting passages from a book when writing an essay. Activities such as these are not considered to be copyright infringement – in fact, the ability for users to make copies for specific purposes is an integral part of the Canadian Copyright Act.
Every year libraries and educational institutions across North America celebrate the rules that allow sharing of portions of published works for research and education.
In celebration of Fair Dealing Week 2021 you’re invited to enter our Virtual Escape Room.
Learn more: https://lib.unb.ca/news/virtual-escape-room-fair-dealing-week-edition
Florida Atlantic University Libraries
Fair Use Week 2021: Promoting Ideas, Creativity, Learning and Culture
By Kristy Padron, MLIS
Scholarly Communication Services Coordinator
Fair Use Week is February 22 – 26, 2021. The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) designated this time to highlight and promote what fair use allows us to do with copyrighted works.
From February 22 to February 26, the Library will celebrate Fair Use Week. Fair use is an important legal doctrine that Georgetown faculty, students, and staff benefit from every day in their research, teaching, and more.
Learn more: https://www.library.georgetown.edu/news/celebrate-fair-use-week-2021
Council of Ministers of Education, Canada (CMEC)
The Fair Dealing Decision Tool helps teachers decide whether “fair dealing” permits classroom use of print materials, artistic works, or audiovisual materials without first getting copyright permission. The tool helps teachers determine whether a specific intended classroom use is allowed by the Fair Dealing Guidelines.
This ARL white paper reexamines the role of the decades-old Commission on New Technological Uses of Copyrighted Works (CONTU) Guidelines in interlibrary lending. The white paper includes the history and legal status of CONTU, along with a review of the applicable copyright law, including Section 108 of the Copyright Act (reproduction by libraries and archives) and Section 107 (fair use). It is our hope that libraries and library associations will use this white paper as a springboard for conversations about interlibrary lending, licensing practices, and journal subscriptions.
Modern Interlibrary Loan Practices: Moving beyond the CONTU Guidelines
Read More›Kansas State University Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship Resources
The Center for the Advancement of Digital Scholarship, or CADS, at K-State Libraries provides resources for K-State students, faculty and staff regarding copyright and fair use. CADS cannot provide legal advice but can provide helpful information about copyright and fair use.
CADS faculty have gathered some helpful resources to learn more about fair use:
- Learn about the four factors to access your Fair Use claim.
- Learn more about Fair Use/Fair Dealings Week with resources and information.
- Need help with your Fair Use claim? Check out the Fair Use Evaluator Tool. You can use this tool to walk through your claim and record it. You can also get a PDF to append to projects and papers.
If you have questions about Fair Use and digital scholarship, please contact CADS.
By: American University Washington College of Law
We are pleased to announce the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources. This document is intended to support authors, teachers, professors, librarians, and all open educators in evaluating when and how they can incorporate third party copyright materials into Open Educational Resources to meet their pedagogical goals.
Fair use provisions of the copyright law allow use of copyrighted materials on a limited basis for specific purposes without requiring the permission of the copyright holder. Below we will detail the current state of the law, including the four factors, transformative uses, and cases for reference.
In the 21st century, we are all creators and users of content. We take original photos with our smartphones, generate blog posts, digital videos, and podcasts. Some of us write books and articles. And nearly everyone contributes content to social media.
Given all of the information and content we generate and use, it’s really important for us to understand the principles of copyright and fair use, principles that have an early American past.
Kyle Courtney, a lawyer, librarian, and Copyright Advisor for Harvard Library will serve as our guide through the early American origins of copyright and fair use.
Yeshiva University Library, “Fair Use Week 2019“
This infographic, created by Fair Use Week 2019, shares how fair use helps in saving software.
ACRL’s Scholarly Communication Toolkit, developed and maintained by the ACRL Research and Scholarly Environment Committee (ReSEC), provides content and context on a broad range of scholarly communications topics and offers resources and tools for the practitioner. The Toolkit is freely available online and licensed through Creative Commons.
Harvard University’s Fair Use Comic on the Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google Inc. case, written by Kyle C. Courtney, art by Jackie Roche.
MIT’s Fair Use Kaleidocycle. Fold your own from this printable.
This infographic illustrates how fair use advances innovation, creativity, and scholarship, ultimately allowing new knowledge to be created and shared.
by Kyle K. Courtney, Jackie Roche, & Sarah W. Searle
The comics on this page were created for the Harvard Library Office of Scholarly Communication’s Fair Use Week annual programs, 2015–2018. The newest comic for the 5th Anniversary of Fair Use Week (2018) will be added soon! Stay tuned!
Powerpoint presentation given by Charlotte Roh, University of San Francisco, on “Using Copyrighted Work in Courses“
MIT Libraries webcast with guest expert Kyle K. Courtney, on recent fan fiction-related court cases in “Fan Fiction and Fair Use“
Haifa University Law and Technology Clinic, student video on “Fair Use Week 2017“
University of Waterloo, “Fair Dealing Myths and Facts“