The Copyright Act generally protects the author or owner of a work’s exclusive right to publish, distribute or perform the work. This general protection is subject ...

Fair Use is legal code written into the United States law to provide a balance (under certain conditions) to a copyright holders exclusive rights. It is based upon a four-factor analysis of a proposed ...

The main issue of the case was the clause of "fair use" in copyright law, which allows the use of copyright-protected works in some instances. The law also takes into account whether the work is ...

Tennessee Senator Marsha Blackburn delivered a pointed statement at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Intellectual ...

Dan Cahoy, a Professor of Business Law at Penn State’s Smeal College of Business, states, "Ultimately, there are four broad and somewhat amorphous factors to determine fair use: the purpose and ...

RIT Libraries can provide information and research assistance on the topics of copyright and fair use. Questions about legal advice and legal recommendations should be directed to RIT’s Office of ...

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 ...