Selected Resources: Best Practices for Fair Use

A couple links/resources for Best Practices for Fair Use.

• Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare:
  “This document is a code of best practices (download as PDF here) designed to help those preparing OpenCourseWare (OCW) to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law. …This code of best practices does not tell you the limits of the fair use rights of OCW makers. Instead, it describes how those rights apply in certain recurrent situations.”
• Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video (Video): From a recent conference on Video in Education conference:
  • Motion Media
    “Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted motion media work may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of a multimedia project created under Section 2 of these guidelines.” (Confu)
  • Text Material
    “Up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever is less, in the aggregate of a copyrighted work consisting of text material may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as part of a multimedia project created under Section 2 of these guidelines.” (Confu)
  • Music, Lyrics and Music Video
    “Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds, of the music and lyrics from an individual musical work (or in the aggregate of extracts from an individual work), whether the musical work is embodied in copies, or audio or audiovisual works, may be reproduced or otherwise incorporated as a part of a multimedia project created under Section 2. Any alterations to a musical work shall not change the basic melody or the fundamental character of the work.” (Confu)

  And they point to Stanford’s page on Fair Use & Multimedia Web Sites.