Copyright for Students: Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use

"[A guide] to assist creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use."

"This report presents strategies for reasonable application of copyright’s fair use doctrine to a series of recurring situations encountered by recorded sound collections."

Based on a consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts, and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who, through discussion groups, identified best practices for using such materials. They included art and architectural historians, artists, designers, curators, museum directors, educators, rights and reproduction officers, and editors at scholarly publishers and journals.

"This document is a code of best practices designed to help those preparing
OpenCourseWare (OCW) to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. ... [It] describes how those rights apply in certain recurrent situations."

This Statement identifies what media scholars consider to be fair use of copyrighted works within media studies publishing in the United States.

This statement makes clear what documentary filmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of the copyright “fair use” doctrine. The statement clarifies this crucial legal doctrine, to help filmmakers use it with confidence.

To clarify some of the issues concerning the permissible use of media for teaching.

"This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy
concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use." "It describes how [fair use] rights should apply in certain recurrent situations."

"This Statement aims to provide educators, scholars, and students – as well as members of the Visual Resources Association, librarians, and others – with the tools to rely on fair use with greater certainty when they employ these practices and principles.

"Helps U.S. communication scholars
to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use."

"This document is a statement of principles to help journalists in the United States interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use."

"[This document] is meant to enhance the ability of poets, teachers, scholars, and others to rely on fair use by serving as documentation of commonly held understandings about best practices in fair use drawn from the experience of the poetry community itself and supported by legal analysis."

"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."

"This document considers the role that the doctrine of fair use may play in helping to resolve the copyright dilemmas that dealing with [the collections of memory institutions] can present."

These Guidelines are designed to inform the field about appropriate and normative practices in the use of copyrighted materials and works of art and the application of fair use in the context of various museum activities.