Fair Use: US Code, Title 17, Sect. 107
Before you use someone else's work without permission, consider ALL 4 of the FAIR USE FACTORS:
1. Purpose and character of use
- Commercial or educational use
- For profit or not
- Degree of transformation; value added
- For criticism, commentary, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, research
2. Nature of the copyrighted work
- Character of the work (consider factual vs. fiction)
- Worthy of (extensive) protection?
- Use only what's necessary
- Quantity and quality in relation to the whole work
- Harm to the market or potential market of a work after a portion has been used separately from the whole
- VT Fair Use Analyzer: Test tool
- Fair Use Checklist: Weigh the 4 factors
