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National Communication Association Endorses Fair Use Code for Scholarship

NCA logoThe National Communication Association (NCA), a leading academic assocation for communication teachers and scholars, has endorsed the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication. Read more...

Pop Culture Critic Elisa Kreisinger's Fair Use Video of the Month: "For Your Consideration"

This Academy Awards Supercut is a guided tour through the prominent female directed films not nominated or recognized during this past award season. Read more...

Fair Use Question Of The Month: Copying a VHS to a DVD for Educational Purposes

February's Fair Use Question of the Month comes from a university librarian who has been asked by a proessor to copy a VHS to a DVD.

 

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Journalists, Fair Use and Free Speech

The Center’s latest report, Copyright, Free Speech, and the Public's Right to Know: How Journalists Think about Fair Use, conducted in conjunction with American University's Washington College of Law, funded by the McCormick Foundation, reveals the cost to journalistic mission of not understanding a crucial free speech right. Read more...

Fair Use Question Of The Month: What About Four Factor Checklists?

This month's fair use question comes from a librarian who is creating guidelines for faculty on how to use copyrighted material in their university's library on classroom Blackboard sites. This question is also featured in Reclaiming Fair Use.

 

 

 

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