{"id":3652,"date":"2011-08-23T22:25:32","date_gmt":"2011-08-24T02:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3652"},"modified":"2011-08-23T22:25:32","modified_gmt":"2011-08-24T02:25:32","slug":"the-common-sense-of-the-fair-use-doctrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/the-common-sense-of-the-fair-use-doctrine.html","title":{"rendered":"The Common Sense of the Fair-Use Doctrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright can be a challenging maze for library folk and educators, and no area causes more stress than the <a title=\"U.S. Copyright Office - Fair-Use Doctrine\" href=\"http:\/\/www.copyright.gov\/fls\/fl102.html\">Fair-Use Doctrine<\/a>.\u00a0 This is mainly because it deals with gray areas of use, presenting guidelines rather than rules.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Common Sense of the Fair-Use Doctrine\" href=\"https:\/\/chronicle.com\/article\/The-Common-Sense-of-the\/128756\/\"><strong>The Common Sense of the Fair-Use Doctrine<\/strong><\/a> is a brief essay in the current Chronicle of Higher Education that is meant to both inform and empower those who would benefit from the fair use of copyrighted works:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Twenty-five years ago, fair use was widespread and uncontroversial. Journalists, scholars, and documentarians employed it regularly. Publishers and other distributors routinely issued works rich with fair-use claims. But increasingly over the last two decades, that has changed, as large media and software companies have fought for greater copyright protections and ramped up their public-relations campaigns and legal actions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A good starting point for further research is Wikipedia&#8217;s <a title=\"Fair use\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fair_use\">Fair use<\/a> entry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>link found via <a title=\"Stephanie L. Gross\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/stephanie.l.gross\">Stephanie L. Gross<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copyright can be a challenging maze for library folk and educators, and no area causes more stress than the Fair-Use Doctrine.\u00a0 This is mainly because it deals with gray areas of use, presenting guidelines rather than rules. The Common Sense &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/23\/the-common-sense-of-the-fair-use-doctrine.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2925,2928,2943,2962],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-copyright","category-education","category-libraries","category-publishing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-WU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}