Lack of clarity reduces learning and limits the ability to use digital tools.
Some educators close their classroom doors and hide what they fear is
infringement; others hyper-comply with imagined rules that are far stricter than
the law requires, limiting the effectiveness of their teaching and their
students’ learning.
This article is created by the U.S. Copyright office. It briefly discusses some of the fair use factors in accordance with Secion 107 of the title 17, U.S. code. It explains that the distinction between fair use and copyright infringement may be difficult to define because there is no specification on the amount of text that can be used. But it does use the 1961 Report of the Register of Copyrights on the General Revision of the U.S. Copyright Law to state some fair use examples that the court has identified as acceptable.