Fair Use and Your Scholarly Rights - Activity
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For Harvard Students: If you are enrolled in the Bookends workshop, please use the Fair Use & Your Scholarly Rights - Bookends Activity.
Knowledge check (5 minutes)
Explore the Fair Use Infographic, and consider the 4 factors of Fair Use:
- Purpose
- Nature
- Amount
- Market
Why did the court consider thumbnail images of Warhol paintings to be an example of fair use?
- The thumbnails served an educational purpose
- The size of the thumbnails is appropriate for the purpose
- The website properly credited the images
Answer: Even though it is likely that the website properly credited the images, the deciding reason for this case is the size of the images. The reduced size of the thumbnails is appropriate for their purpose in this search engine setting. A larger image resolution would not be appropriate for this purpose and would be more difficult to make a fair use argument.
Imagine your own use case scenario (10 minutes)
Imagine you are putting a phrase or image on a t-shirt, sharing a book excerpt in a blog post, or using an image in your dissertation.
- How would you argue your case for fair use for each of the four factors?
- How can you adjust this use case to make a stronger claim for fair use?
Explore the ongoing discussion
Fairly Used Blog Links to an external site., from Stanford Libraries - Commentary on fair use and copyright issues.
Find your local copyright expert
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Copyright First Responders Interactive Map Links to an external site. - Use the map to find your state and learning institution.
- Other personnel at your institution that may have copyright experience:
- Law librarians
- Office of General Counsel
- Scholarly Communications
Harvard affiliates: Harvard's Copyright First Responders - Our team can help you with your fair use and copyright questions
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