Fair Use Explained

Need fair use explained? Fair Use is an enigma — indeed, no one even knows how many words of a copyrighted work one can legally copy as “fair use.”

Say you want to use someone else’s copyrighted photograph in your blog or Instagram post. Is that “Fair Use” or copyright infringement? The answer is, it depends on the nature of the use, and the purpose of the use.

Often, determining Fair Use is a no-brainer. If you’re writing a book review, you need to quote from the book in question in order to comment upon it. As a result, you have transformed the original copyrighted work into a new work in your book review.

There are limits to how much of a work can be copied for educational purposes. You also can’t use these photocopies as a substitute for required texts. In addition, you can’t charge for the photocopied work (except to recoup the costs of photocopying), and use of the copies by students cannot be mandatory.

In cases like these, Fair Use seems simple enough. They have served the public interest and have not harmed the market for the original work. In fact, book reviews and book excerpts often increase sales of the original work by publicizing them.

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