Interpretation copyright law and fair use is complex. Library and Information Services (LIS) intends to respect the provisions of the Fair Use Guideline of the U.S. Copyright Law, and the TEACH Act.
Adapted in part from the Connecticut College LIS Copyright Policy Statement for use at Mitchell College.
Before assessing Fair Use, it is important to understand a few copyright basics. Links to more information can be found below.
adapted from Columbia University Libraries' Copyright Quick Guide
According to iLibrarian: "A project of Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Tales from the Public Domain: Bound by Law? presents the ins-and-outs of public domain, fair use, and copyright law in an easy-to-understand format. This 70-page, masterfully illustrated and incredibly detailed comic book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, and offers free digital versions for download as well as makes individual pages accessible for remixing. If you’re interested in learning more about intellectual property law in an increasingly digitized and mashed-up culture, or you’re on the lookout for instructional materials, you’ll want to check this one out."