What is Fair Use?

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Fair Use is particularly important in academic settings where students, faculty, and researchers are able to legally incorporate copyrighted materials, without permission from the author (but with appropriate attribution, of course) in slide shows, book reviews, and classroom lectures.

To learn more about when Fair Use allows you to use copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder, check out:

Margaret Phillips, Education-Psychology Library
contact me at mphillip [at] library.berkeley.edu

Reblogged (with permission!) from the Library News blog posting on Fair Use Week.