The concept of Fair Use may be found in the opens new windowU.S. Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107
Under the “fair use” rule of copyright law, an author may make limited use of another author’s work without asking permission. However, “fair use” is open to interpretation. Fair use is intended to support teaching, research, and scholarship, but educational purpose alone does not make every use of a work fair. It is always important to analyze how you are going use a particular work against the following four factors of fair use.
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opens new windowFair Use Evaluator
This tool can:
opens new windowFair Use Checklist
for background and information on using this checklist see the opens new window introduction to the Checklist
opens new windowCode of Best Practices for Fair Use
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) presents a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use.