Jim Dan Hill Library: Teaching Using Canvas: Copyright &amp; Fair Use

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Need help determining whether your desired use is eligible for educational or fair use exceptions to copyright law? Use these tools to help you analyze your use and learn more about legal precedent in fair use cases.

Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use - Center for Media and Social Impact
Filmmakers, journalists, teachers, visual arts professionals, librarians, archivists and more all have collaborated with CMSI to clarify how fair use works with their most common practices.
Exceptions for Instructors eTool - American Library Association
This tool will guide you through the educational exceptions in U.S. copyright law, helping to explain and clarify rights and responsibilities for the performance and display of copyrighted content in traditional, distance and blended educational models.
Fair Use Evaluator - American Library Association
A tool from the American Library Association's to help you determine how "fair" your intended use for a work is. This will provide you with a time-stamped PDF for your records, which could prove valuable in the event that you provide your argument for fair use to a copyright holder.
Fair Use Index - U.S. Copyright Office
The Fair Use Index aims to make the principles and application of fair use more accessible and understandable to the public by presenting a searchable database of court opinions, including by category and type of use (e.g., music, internet/digitization, parody).

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Teaching Using Canvas: Copyright & Fair Use

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