Fair Use

Main Nav

Georgia State Case Resources
Want to find out more about this case? Visit the ICPL Georgia State Case Resources page for links to helpful articles and blogs related to the Georgia State copyright case (Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al.). This lawsuit brought by several publishers against Georgia State University involves the use of copyrighted materials in e-reserves in higher education, but the impact of the case and its potential results may be far more reaching.

Copyright law, especially Fair Use can be a complicated and confusing issue to navigate. The following resources have been collected to help librarians and other interested parties determine when fair use of copyrighted materials is allowed.

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries, ARL and American University. January 2012. This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself.

The following resources were collected by the Center for Social Media at American University.

Library Items on this Topic

View All

EDUCAUSE Library Items for Fair Use

Showing 1 - 10 of 55 Results

Sort by:

Relevancy | Title | Date

Massive Open Online Courses: Legal and Policy Issues for Research Libraries: October 22, 2012

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) raise significant legal and policy questions for research libraries, which are often asked to support the development of MOOC courses. These questions involve …
Special Collections and Archives in the Digital Age: June 28, 2012

This issue of Research Library Issues (no 279) from the Association of Research Libraries, is focused on legal concerns and evolving professional practices around digitizing special collectio…
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries: February 1, 2012

This guide was published by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) as a clear and easy-to-use statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use developed by and for librarians who sup…
Myths About Fair Use: August 2, 2011

"Academics potentially enjoy some of the greatest benefits of U.S. copyright law’s doctrine of fair use — which lets them use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under s…
What You Don't Know About Copyright, but Should: May 29, 2011

A lawyer and a librarian, Ms. Sims is copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota Libraries. She's there to help people on campus and beyond—both users and owners of protec…
Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Libraries: December 20, 2010

This report summarizes research into the current application of fair use to meet the missions of U.S. academic and research libraries. Sixty-five librarians were interviewed confidentially by tel…
Copying Right and Copying Wrong with Web 2.0 Tools in the Teacher Education and Communications Classrooms: November 18, 2010

Understanding the tenets of copyright in general, and in particular, in online communication and publishing with Web 2.0 tools, has become an important part of literacy in today’s Information A…
Urban Copyright Legends: August 2, 2010

This publication attempts to clear up several copyright misconceptions including fair use and licensing issues. This publication attempts to clea…
Fighting a Copyright Charge: March 4, 2010

UCLA says it will start streaming videos on course Web sites again -- despite legal threats from an educational media trade group. UCLA says it …
Streaming of Films for Educational Purposes: February 19, 2010

Recent reports of the disagreement between University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and an association of distributors of educational films concerning the streaming of films from course websi…