Fair+Use

===Copyright laws protect the rights of the creators of the work, the copyright holder. Fair use is a means of balancing those rights with the needs of students and teachers. Fair use is where copyright becomes tricky. There are four factors to be determined to help decide whether the use qualifies under the fair use provision. The University of Texas has a useful web page on fair use.===

[|University of Texas Fair use]
[|Wisconsin DPI Web Site]

The fair use guidelines as they appear in section 107 of the federal law are listed below.
"Section 107 contains a list of the various purposes for which the reproduction of a particular work may be considered fair, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Section 107 also set out four factors to be considered in determining whether or not a particular use is fair:
 * 1) The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes.
 * 2) The nature of the copyrighted work.
 * 3) The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.
 * 4) The effect of the use upon the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work." (17 USC, [|http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html)]

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