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Statement of the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study

The Visual Resources Association  has released its own code of best practices  in fair use. It will be enormously valuable to art teachers, librarians, curators, publishers and more. The Statement well describes the need for professionals working with image resources to know their free speech rights in regard to fair use.

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The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries

The mission of academic and research librarians is to enable teaching, learning,and research. Along with serving current faculty, researchers, and students (especially graduate students), these librarians also serve the general public, to whom academic and research libraries are often open. Finally, academic and research librarians are committed to faculty, researchers, and students of the future, who depend on the responsible collection, curation, and preservation of materials over time.

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Set of Principles in Fair Use for Journalism

Fair Use for Journalism

Journalists have created a set of principles that allows them to stop censoring their journalistic choices, especially in emerging digital environments. This Set of Principles reduces risk of copyright infringement by clarifying professional community standards. It identifies seven situations in which journalists routinely employ fair use, and what its limitations are: Incidental capture; proof; use in cultural journalism; illustration; historical reference; to foster public discussion and advancing the story.

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Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Orphan Works for Libraries & Archives

Orphan WorksMore than 150 librarians, archivists and other memory institution professionals have contributed to the development of this Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Collections Containing Orphan Works. Download this statement, which provides clear and easy to understand guidance for memory institutions that seek to provide digital preservation and access to collections containing copyrighted, orphan works under the doctrine of fair use.

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Fair Use for the Visual Arts

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual ArtsMore than 200 artists, art historians, editors, curators, and staff of other visual arts institutions have contributed to the development of this Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts. Download this statement, which provides clear and easy to understand guidance for members of the visual arts community on the fair use doctrine of copyright.

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