Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials for Instruction

These links, provided by Beth Cate, IU counsel, point to resources related to several of her TLTC presentations.

IU Copyright Management Center - with links to other materials, helpful materials, including a detailed discussion of fair use issues, and the 'Fair Use Checklist' that can help with a good faith fair use analysis.

U.S. Copyright Office - with lots of information on copyright law, fair use, and licensing copyrighted works, and lots of links to other helpful materials

University of Texas Copyright Crash Course and Copyright Presentations - contain excellent discussions of the copyright law and the issues that can arise with fair use, getting permission for the use of copyrighted works, and other related issues. However, please be aware that these pages also contain a lot of advice and references to UT policies that may or may not be the same advice or policy decisions that would apply here at IU.

Stanford University Copyright and Fair Use Center.

North Carolina State University Library resources on copyright and fair use, including the TEACH Toolkit for those interested in issues of fair use in distributed education.

PowerPoint Presentation from June 27, 2004
*This is not meant to substitute for legal advice. Please call the University Counsel's Office with any questions regarding the determination of whether a particular use of copyrighted material may constitute fair use, or any other questions regarding the application of copyright law to a given activity. The best people to contact are:

Counsel's Office
855-9739
Beth Cate, becate@indiana.edu
Michael Klein, kleinm@indiana.edu

Fred Cate, Professor of Law, IU-Bloomington
855-1161
fcate@indiana.edu

Marshall Leaffer, Professor of Law, IU-Bloomington
856-4489
mleaffer@indiana.edu

Kenneth Crews, Professor of Law and Professor of Library Sciences, IUPUI
317-274-4400
kcrews@iupui.edu (Kenny is on sabbatical through the end of this month, so may be hard to reach until August).