12 myths and realities about Fair Use (pdf document).
Sing along with this catchy music video to learn about fair use! Developed by the Media Education Lab as part of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education, this song helps students understand the key concepts of transformative use.
WFMU and the Free Music Archive recorded a special episode of Radio Free Culture, a weekly podcast exploring issues at the intersection of digital culture and the arts, for fair use week 2015.
In this episode, Cheyenne Hohman, RFC host and current Director of the FMA, spoke with Ellen Duranceau, Program Manager for Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. We talk about the four elements of fair use, how to determine if your use is fair, and talk about other issues around the edges of copyright, music, technology, and more.
Check out the podcast on WFMU, PRX, or subscribe to the Radio Free Culture via iTunes, or listen here.
Or via the playlists.
(Thanks to the freemusic archive for this write-up, which was adapted slightly from their blog.)
MIT Libraries Office of Scholarly Publishing, Copyright & Licensing
In celebration of Fair Use Week, the MIT Libraries’ Office of Scholarly Publishing, Copyright, and Licensing has launched a mobile version of the web-based Fair Use Quiz that was initially released last year.
Access the quiz here.
Read More›Copyright lawyer Jonathan Band details cases of fair use in everyday life (PDF document).
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries came out in January 2012, and ARL has been spreading the good news at events around the country ever since. In this series of video interviews, taped in October 2012, five dynamic leaders of ARL libraries describe how they are using the Code to inform new approaches to questions of copyright and fair use.
Copyright lawyer Jonathan Band discusses the 2014 decision in the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust case and the implications for libraries.
American University law professors Peter Jaszi and Brandon Butler discuss the development and roll-out of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries.
American University professors Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide discuss the development of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries.
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.
Presentation by Georgia Harper.
The content covers strategies for artists managing the risk of copyright infringement. It is a PowerPoint presentation, with the text of the talk in the Notes field.
A two-sided over sized postcard created by the UCLA Library to celebrate Fair Use Week 2015 available here.
Legislative Summary of Bill C-11: An Act to amend the Copyright Act
The Pentalogy: The Supreme Court Clarifies Canada’s Copyright Law in Five Major Decisions
The Fair Use Fundamentals infographic explains what fair use is, why it is important, who uses fair use, and provides some examples of fair use.
Center for Media and Social Impact Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use.
ARL Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries (PDF document).
This infographic by ARL, American University’s (AU) Washington College of Law, and AU’s School of Communication shows how and why libraries should use the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries.
Infographic that tells the story of how libraries are champions for academic freedom and balanced copyright policies.
Copyright Timeline: A History of Copyright in the United States