Ottawa Campus Newspaper Editorial Team 1894
University Hall
Aerial View of Ottawa University
Price Hall
Wilson Field House
What resources are you using to write papers? With students in the classroom?
Remember that everything on the Internet is not public domain. See the Public Domain Research Guide for more information about that. If you are specifically interested in plagiarism, See our Plagiarism Guide
Are you using a book, periodical or website?
If so, you must list them in your references/bibliography and cite authors whose information you are using in your papers or presentations
Do you need to make photocopies out of books, periodicals or websites?
If so, start out by looking at our “What is Fair Use?” Research Guide which links to fair use guidelines
Are you using media in your classroom or on blackboard?
See the Research guide on this website about “Copyright and Blackboard”
Guidelines for lawfully acquired copyrighted works that can be used according to Fair Use as indicated by the US Copyright Office:
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Books and Media |
Amount Suggested to meet Fair Use |
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Video |
Up to 10% or 3 minutes or less |
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Text Interlibrary Loan Articles |
Up to 10% or 1000 words or less No more than 3 articles per year from the same periodical title No more than 1 article per periodical issue |
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Music/Lyrics/Music Video |
Up to 10%, but no more than 30 seconds |
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Illustrations/Photographs/Images |
No more than 5 images from a single artist; |
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Data Sets (databases) |
Up to 10% or 2500 fields, whichever is less |
Purpose
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Favors Fair Use |
Opposes Fair Use |
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Classroom/scholarly/research |
Commercial/Profit |
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Non-Profit |
Entertainment |
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Criticism/Comment/Parody |
Creator not credited |
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Transformative |
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Nature
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Favors Fair Use |
Opposes Fair Use |
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Published work |
Unpublished Work |
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Factual/non-fiction |
Creative/Artistic |
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Important to educational objective |
Fiction |
Amount
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Favors Fair Use |
Opposes Fair Use |
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Small Quantity |
Large portion or whole work used |
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Portion not central to entire work |
Using most significant portion of work |
Effect
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Favors Fair Use |
Opposes Fair Use |
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User purchased original copy of work |
Could replace sale of work |
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One or few copies made |
Numerous copies made |
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No significant effect on the market for the work |
Impairs market potential of the work or derivatives |
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No similar product marketed (such as – no individual electronic chapter of the book is available for purchase) |
Portion used could be easily purchased |
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Restricted Access |
Posted to open web |
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Repeated or long-term use |
Checklist available at http://www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/basics/fairuse_list.html.
