For teachers - Copyright & Fair Use

You may want to use this Fair Use Checklist to help evaluate the nature of your use:

http://www.ala.org/advocacy/sites/ala.org.advocacy/files/content/copyright/FairUseChecklist.pdf  

You may wish to consult this list regarding how much of a work you can legally use: https://fairuseandcopyright.weebly.com/permissible-amounts.html  . 

You may wish to use the Fair Use online evaluator: 

https://librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/index.php .

Ultimately, Fair Use is about the following 4 things, which I have copied directly from The University of Chicago's Copyright Information Center  https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/copyrightinfo/fairuse.html  :

1) Purpose of the Use

Materials should be used in class only for the purpose of serving the needs of specified educational programs.

Students should not be charged a fee specifically or directly for the materials.

2) Nature of the Work

Only those portions of the work relevant to the educational objectives of the course should be used in the classroom.

The law of fair use applies more narrowly to highly creative works; accordingly, avoid substantial excerpts from novels, short stories, poetry, modern art images, and other such materials.

Instructors should not distribute copies of "consumable" materials such as test forms and workbook pages that are meant to be used and repurchased.

3) Amount of the Work

Materials used in the classroom will generally be limited to brief works or brief excerpts from longer works. Examples: a single chapter from a book, an individual article from a journal, and individual news articles.

The amount of the work used should be related directly to the educational objectives of the course.

4) Effect of the Use on the Market for the Original

The instructor should consider whether the copying harms the market or sale of the copyrighted material.

Materials used in the class should include a citation to the original source of publication and a form of a copyright notice.

Instructor should consider whether materials are reasonably available and affordable for students to purchase - whether as a book, course pack, or other format.