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What If We Asked the Librarians? Or, How The Librarians’ Code Is Different
Today, with help from our partners at the Center for Social Media at American University, and the Law School at AU, and with support from a grant from The Andrew...
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Copyright Education, Academic Integrity Codes and Fair Use
Flyer discussing copyright education and academic integrity codes. Code-brief-copyright-education-2012.pdf
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The Law of Fair Use and the Illusion of Fair-Use Guidelines
Several "official" and formal guidelines that attempt to define the scope of fair use for specific applications—notably for education, research, and library services—have emerged in the years since passage of...
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: FAQ for Professors
fair-use-code-faq-profs.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: FAQ for Students
fair-use-code-faq-students.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Designing the Public Domain
This Note from the Harvard Law Review organizes research on pro-social motivation around the motivation-fostering effects of empowerment, community, and fairness. By incorporating these norms into the cultural architecture of...
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Fair Use and Research Libraries
Discusses copyright and its problems, why librarians need useable fair use, and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries fair-use-code-slides-lib.pdf
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use: Fair Use and Students
Discusses why students need to understand fair use, copyright and its problems, how codes of best practices help fair-use-code-slides-student.pdf
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USPTO Position on Fair Use of Copies of NPL Made in Patent Examination
Memorandum from Bernard J. Knight, Jr. discussing the application of the fair use doctrine to the use of non-patent literature (NPL) in the patent examination process. fair-use-code-uspto.pdf
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Accessibility, The Chafee Amendment, and Fair Use
Flyer discussing fair use and the reproduction of material for use by disabled students, faculty, staff, and other appropriate users. Code-brief-chaffee-amendment-2012.pdf