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Fair Use and Education: The Way Forward

The ability to make reasonable “fair use” of copyrighted material is both economically and culturally important to the enterprise of education. In asserting fair use, teachers, librarians, and others cannot rely on a claim of “educational exceptionalism,” for which there is no clear basis in U.S. Copyright law. Instead, they should seek to take advantage of current trends in copyright caselaw, including the marked trend toward preferring uses that are “transformative,” where the amount of content used is appropriate to the transformative purpose. Over twenty years, we have accumulated considerable information about what constitutes “transformativeness,” and members of the education community are well-positioned to provide persuasive narratives explaining how educational uses significantly repurpose and add value to the copyrighted content they incorporate. Published in Law & Literature, Vol. 24 No. 3 (Fall 2012).

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