Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms. View as streaming video, download as an MP4 file or watch it on YouTube.
1).Helps you better understand how to determine the "fairness" of a use under the U.S. Copyright Code.
2). Collects, organize & archive the information you might need to support a fair use evaluation.
3).Provides you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records, which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.
4). Provides you with a time-stamped, PDF document for your records [example], which could prove valuable, should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.
This web site explains the various rules behind the fair use principle. To help you get a feel for which uses courts consider to be fair uses and which ones they don't, they provide several examples of fair use lawsuits at the end of this chapter.