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  Fair Use The exclusive rights of the copyright owner are not unlimited. The copyright law establishes some limitations on these rights. One of the most important limitations on the exclusive rights is the doctrine of "Fair Use." The "Fair Use" doctrine allows limited copying of copyrighted works for educational and research purposes. The copyright law provides that reproduction "for purposes such as criticism, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research" is not an infringement of copyright. The law lists the following factors, which courts must consider together in determining whether a particular use of a copyrighted work is a permitted "Fair Use," or is instead an infringement of the copyright: the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes: the noncommercial educational use is more likely to be a fair use; the nature of the copyrighted work: the more factual and less creative the work, the more likely it will be fair use; the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole: the more taken the less likely to be fair use; and the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work: in other words, is the use taking away from the copyright owner money that the she might have been making from the work.

Material posted on the district's public Web site in violation of copyright law.

To look up your students' permissions, log in to Infinite Campus, go to the search tab to search for a student, then click on the "Enrollments" tab-Click on the current year-Click on the Plus sign next to "District Defined Elements", and then you will see all of the Media Waiver form permissions for that student.