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- U.S. copyright law provides for "fair use" for non-profit research, teaching, and scholarship
- Generally this means that you can reproduce portions of a work without securing copyright permission from the publisher and/or author
- Recent case law has held that fair use will be judged in light of purpose
- For sufficiently new or transformative purposes, quite a lot of a copyrighted work can be used.
- Old guidelines that emphasized counting words or calculated pre-determined percentages of a given work are no longer useful
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"Public Domain" Materials
- Generally, books that are older than 20 years are in the "public domain" (and can be reproduced without copyright restrictions)
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- Copyright Request
- Release Form (for Oral Histories and Interviews, for exampleetc.)
Mandala
- Supports you your work within Copyright Law and "Fair Use"
- Restrict Allow you to restrict each asset or collection as needed:
- Public
- Private
- Group
- Class
Disclaimer
- This advice should help to orient orients you and better prepare you for a consultation with your attorney and/or the University's General Counsel
- This document is not meant to substitute for legal advice.
- This document focuses on U.S. copyright law and practice.
- International copyright varies widely from U.S. law and practice widely.
- Copyright law and it's interpretation are continually changing, particularly in the web environment.
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