Guidelines
These guidelines are based upon the 1998 Conference on Fair
Use (CONFU) report to congress and have their roots in the original Kastenmeier
Guidelines from 1976. The AD Hoc committee that composed those guidelines
clearly indicated that the guidelines were meant to be a minimum that constituted
educational fair use. The guidelines have not been passed into law and represent
the suggested conditions under which educators can use copyright protected
materials without getting consent of the author or creator of the work. They
are presented here to assist you in making decisions about whether or not
your intended use of certain materials is fair or what is an infringement.
Remember these are guidelines and not hard and fast rules. Use them to guide you
in your selection of educational materials.
Recent innovations in computer and information technologies such as
high quality graphic scanners, CD-ROMs, high speed modems, Internet,
etc. have made access to, and retrieval of, all types of media very
easy. However, just because these media are easily accessible and stored
in digital format does not mean that they are not copyright protected!
While there is still much debate on how existing copyright laws apply
to these types of media, they should be treated the same as traditional
media with regard to copyright and fair use.
Thanks to
Austin Community College for
permission to use the information from their copyright pages.
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This page last updated on 6/11/2007.
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