Fair Use

When the College Art Association launched the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts in February 2015, the panel discussed some basic questions about fair use, the visual arts, and the Code itself. Now, you can sample highlights from that panel and get your questions answered at the same time, in six areas:Read more...

The community that benefits from librarians' better understanding of their fair use rights is growing. Read more...

 On Friday, June 8th, Techdirt hosted a live Q&A discussion with Pat Aufderheide on fair use. Read more...

Librarians across the country watched as last month's long-anticipated judicial decision in the Georgia State University lawsuit came down overwhelmingly in favor of the university's fair use.

The lawsuit, brought by publishers, charged that the university had exceeded fair use in its policies on posting reserves materials for classes electronically. The judge, however, in some areas used a different logic than in the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries to arrive at her conclusions. Read more...

In this month's fair use question, a high school librarian wants to create an online collection archiving the community's reactions to the high school's remodel.

Dear Center for Social Media,Read more...