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.
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“
Brigham Young University Copyright Licensing Office on taking the fear out of fair use, with their video “Fear Use“
Recording of “Using Fair Use to Preserve and Share Disappearing Government Information: A Guide for Rogue Librarians,” with Lillian Rigling and Will Cross, NCSU Libraries
View Kyle K. Courtney, Copyright Advisor at Harvard University Library, speak on “Fair Use Fights Fascism: Some Fair Use Week Thoughts on the 1st Amendment & Fair Use”
Fair Use Video Code: Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices by the Center for Media & Social Impact at the School of Communication, American University.
Copy This Podcast Episode 4: Fair Use: You Use It More Than You Realize with Corynne McSherry (EFF) by Re:Create.
Fair Use of Unpublished Works: A Comic for Fair Use Week 2017, by Kyle K. Courtney, Jackie Roche, and Sarah W. Searle of the Harvard Library Office of Scholarly Communication
In this PK in the Know podcast, Meredith Whipple interviews Charles Duan of Public Knowledge about common patterns in songs.
Brett Gaylor is a documentary filmmaker and Director of Advocacy Media at Mozilla.
This video highlights how fair use helped facilitate work created in a course at Duke University taught by Professor Karrie Stewart on Global Narratives of HIV/AIDS. Ryan Fitzgerald, one of the students in that course, is interviewed here to talk about how he used material from the Maria de Bruyn collection in Duke’s Rubenstein Library to create a new work commenting on the original.
Read More›View the livestream of the ADA Forum 2017, from The Australian Digital Alliance.
View the livestream of the ADA Forum 2017, from The Australian Digital Alliance.
A video about fair use and copyright policy, which is a fair use parody of Disney’s “Let It Go,” and which is made up of clips of other fair use videos.
Charles Duan, Public Knowledge.
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. This infographic, made by Harvard Library’s Copyright First Responders, details the current state of the law, including the four factors, transformative uses, and cases for reference which are linked to openly licensed resources.