The Fair Use Checklist and variations on it have been widely used for many years to help educators, librarians, lawyers, and many other users of copyrighted works determine whether their activities ...

The guidelines described below apply to all University Libraries' reserve systems and are promulgated pursuant to 17 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq. The library will not knowingly make available any ...

What types of materials can be placed on reserve? Class notes and quizzes, student papers (by permission), links to websites or links to materials available through the Libraries' electronic ...

The document, available HERE, outlines not only the benefits to establishing copyright guidelines for these estimated millions of writings, recordings, and photographs whose rights holders are ...

When meteorologist Rob Fowler at WCBD-TV in Charleston, S.C., read the picture book classic Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs on air last week, he did exactly what Simon & Schuster hopes others will ...

Fair use is a legal doctrine that allows limited use of copyrighted material without permission from the rights holders. However, whether a specific use qualifies as fair use depends on several ...

The government will announce guidelines next month to define the scope of using copyrighted works for training generative AI (artificial intelligence) without the consent of copyright holders. The ...

If an edutech company trains an AI on hundreds of textbooks from multiple publishers and sells newly created problem sets, ...

On May 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its first decision this century on copyright fair use in the artistic context. Andy Warhol Found. for the Visual Arts, Inc. v. Goldsmith, 143 S. Ct. 1258 ...

Generative AI has emerged as a transformative force in technology, creating text, art, music and code that can rival human efforts. However, its rise has sparked significant debates around copyright ...

Fair use has nothing to do with—and can’t be used to defend—DRM circumvention, according to the Motion Picture Association of America. The arguments were made during the RealDVD hearing in San ...

Many times, the content removed is actually a fair use, but Wikimedia Commons’ volunteer-created standards are much stricter than the U.S. copright law, by design. Since fair use is highly context ...