[Air-L] Fair use analysis

[burkx006 at umn.edu]

I think the background material from UMN libraries can be quite helpful:

http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairuse.phtml

(Although it unaccountably leaves off the last sentence of section 107).

I am not a very big fan of the worksheet, primarily because it leaves the 
misleading impression that fair use can be determined using, well, a 
worksheet.

DLB


On Jan 19 2008, greenhow at umn.edu wrote:

>Hi Pam and Bill, 
>
>I've come across questions similar to the ones you are posing. Here is an 
>online interactive tool that might be useful to guide understanding of the 
>four Factors of Fair Use, help weigh them, and make a good faith, 
>documented fair use decision (with printable PDF to document your process).
>
>http://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/checklist.phtml
>
>Here's our recent article on Fair Use Decision-making which you may find 
>useful: 
>http://innovateonline.info/index.php?view=article&id=443&action=login
>
>Cheers,
>Christine Greenhow
>Learning Technologies
>University of Minnesota
>
>On Jan 19 2008, Bill Herman wrote:
>
>>In all due respect, Prof. Burk, please explain. I'm asking publicly 
>>because, if I've given an incorrect analysis, I'd like to be corrected 
>>on the record.
>>
>>Cheers,
>>
>>Bill
>>
>>
>>>> >
>>>> > Each of these factors favors a finding of fair use here. The 
>>>> > intended use is for nonprofit scholarship and education. The 
>>>> > copyrighted work being quoted is something (a post to a free 
>>>> > listserv) with absolutely no commercial value. (Posts have 
>>>> > intellectual value, but we've already given them away.) The proposed 
>>>> > project would reproduce mere fractions of each post. Finally, there 
>>>> > is no concern about the effect on the marketability of something 
>>>> > with no commercial value.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Bill's fair use analysis is pretty much wrong, but no worries, the use 
>>> is probably fair anyway. DLB
>>>
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>>> Minnesota Law School 229 19th Avenue South Minneapolis, MN 55455 
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