U.S. Copyright Office: Can I use someone else's work??? Fair Use FAQs. http://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-fairuse.html
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the considered views of the library community about best practices in fair use, drawn from the actual practices and experience of the library community itself. http://www.arl.org/pp/ppcopyright/codefairuse/code/index.shtml
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication This document is a code of best practices that helps U.S. communication scholars to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. http://cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication/
The Copyright Page The Intellectual Property Law Server: The Server has been online since March 1997 and serves approximately 15 million pages a year. The Server provides information about intellectual property law including patent, trademark and copyright. Resources include comprehensive links, general information, space for professionals to publish articles and forums for discussing related issues. http://www.intelproplaw.com/Copyright/index.shtml
Copyright and Fair Use: Stanford University Libraries Produced at Standford University Libraries and contains primary materials, current legislation and cases, resources on the internet, overview of copyright law. http://fairuse.stanford.edu/
Cornell University Law School Legal Information Institute Search for Copyright on this site and retrieve information from many kinds of U.S. law resources. http://www.law.cornell.edu/
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry This code of best practices is meant as an aid in interpreting the copyright doctrine of fair use as it applies to creating and quoting poetry. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances, especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. http://centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-poetry
Visual Resources Association: Statement On The Fair Use Of Images For Teaching, Research and Study. The VRA (www.vraweb.org) is a multidisciplinary organization dedicated to furthering research and education in the field of image management. http://www.vraweb.org/organization/pdf/VRAFairUseGuidelinesFinal.pdf
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances. http://cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-practices-fair-use-online-video/
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education This document is a code of best practices that helps educators using media literacy concepts and techniques to interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances—especially when the cultural or social benefits of the use are predominant. http://cmsimpact.org/code/code-best-practices-fair-use-media-literacy-education/
Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators. Cinema Journal 47, No. 2, Winter 2008. Scholarly article reviews the history of use of media in the classroom and online http://www.cmstudies.org/resource/resmgr/fair_use_documents/scms_teaching_statement.pdf
Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use Documentary filmmakers have created, through their professional associations, a clear, easy to understand statement of fair and reasonable approaches to fair use. Fair Use is the right, in some circumstances, to quote copyrighted material without asking permission or paying for it. http://cmsimpact.org/code/documentary-filmmakers-statement-of-best-practices-in-fair-use/
Fair Use Materials for Dance-Related Materials. This Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related Materials, produced by the Dance Heritage Coalition, clarifies what librarians, archivists, curators, and others working with dance-related materials currently regard as a reasonable application of the Copyright Act's fair use doctrine, where the use of copyrighted materials is essential to significant cultural missions and institutional goals. http://www.danceheritage.org/DHC_fair_use_statement.pdf