Fair Use and Copyright Issues for Faculty and Staff
You want to be able to provide your students with the best education you can, but you also want to model the legal use of other intellectual property. Well congratulations, thinking about it is the first step.
First of all, the concept of Fair Use is a defense to someone claiming a copyright violation, not a right per se. You have to build your defense of your usage of someone else's material. In order to do this, there are several critical aspects that you have to look into:
{These four provisions were blatantly copied from this government site. As a government site, the public has the right to copy the material from the web site, or any other government publication. }
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the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
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the nature of the copyrighted work;
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amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
- the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Here are some other web sites that have good discussions of copyright and fair use.
The fair use entry on Wikipedia. This site usually contains really good information but has the remote potential present incorrect information or information skewed by a particular viewpoint. Please keep this in mind when reading the wikipedia content.
An American Library Association page on Copyright. This group is taking an active role in working with congress to improve copyright and fair use implementation.
