Fair Use

The Center’s latest report, Copyright, Free Speech, and the Public's Right to Know: How Journalists Think about Fair Use, conducted in conjunction with American University's Washington College of Law, funded by the McCormick Foundation, reveals the cost to journalistic mission of not understanding a crucial free speech right. Read more...

This month's fair use question comes from a librarian who is creating guidelines for faculty on how to use copyrighted material in their university's library on classroom Blackboard sites. This question is also featured in Reclaiming Fair Use.

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The Yes Men employed fair use to provide a critique of economic and political leaders' public pronouncements (and their actions). As the 2012 World Economic Forum began in Davos Switzerland, these Yes Men remixes (created in 2010) provided a dissident variation on the forum’s new theme: The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models. Read more...

The Visual Resources Association has released its own code of best practices in fair use. It will be enormously valuable to art teachers, librarians, curators, publishers and more.Read more...