Research Guides: Copyright, Fair Use, and Plagiarism: Fair Use

What's Fair?

How Fair Use Works in 6 minutes or Less | Podcast
A 2016 podcast from the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.
Fair Use and Copyright for Online Education | URI Libraries
Includes fair use examples for text, images, video and sound recordings.
How can I legally use images online?
Search Engine Journal 2015 article
How much material can I use in my PowerPoint?
A breakdown by material type of what is considered fair use ie. how much may be used by a TEACHER OR STUDENT from one source during a semester or term in PowerPoints they create. (Simpson 2007)
What is fair use for visual arts?
Code of best practices for fair use in the visual arts from the College Art Association
Fair use of music
From the National Assoc. for Music Education

Myths about Fair Use - Debunked by Stanford University's Center for the Internet and Society

American University Center for Social Media video on fair use and online videos

Along with the URI Libraries Guide listed earlier in this guide, the following guides from academic libraries could be useful:

Doctrine of "fair use" | Section 107 Limitations on exclusive rights: fair use
Section 107 of U.S. copyright law establishes fair use. U.S. Copyright Office.
With notes from the Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
TEACH Act
which is incorporated in Section 110 (2) of the U.S. Copyright Act.
Copyright Law of the United States
This publication contains the text of title 17 of the United States Code, including all amendments enacted by Congress through June 30, 2016. It includes the Copyright Act of 1976 and all subsequent amendments to copyright law

Fair Use Best Practices & Teaching Materials | Center for Media and Social Impact, American University
Fair Use Explained | Columbia University Libraries
Including the 4 points of fair use explained.
Fair Use Checklist | Columbia University
Checklist from the Copyright Advisory Office at Columbia. Download the PDF.
Document the Fair Use Reasoning Process
Form you can print out and document your evaluation of material for fair use. From the Media Education Lab.
Fair Use Evaluator
An online tool from the American Library Association (ALA) that can help users understand how to determine if the use of a protected work is a “fair use.” It helps users collect, organize, and document the information they may need to support a fair use claim, and provides a time-stamped PDF document for the users’ records.
Fair Use Quiz | MIT Libraries
Thinking Through Fair Use Tool | University of Minnesota Libraries
This tool can help you organize your thoughts around the issues, although it does NOT tell you whether a proposed use is fair or not, and does NOT provide any kind of legal advice. It simply helps you structure your own reflections about the fair use factors, and provides a record that you did consider relevant issues.
Exceptions for Instructors eTool | Copyright Advisory Network
Tool from the ALA for instructors. Figure out if your use is fair use, create a PDF documenting your results