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Uses and Applications

The University of Texas System offers a Crash Course in Copyright.

Fair Use Guidelines for use of Books and Periodicals. From the U.S. Copyright Office, Circular 21.

Fair Use Guidelines For Distance Learning - developed during the CONFU deliberations.

Fair Use Guidelines for Music - developed by the Music Library Association.

When Works Pass into the Public Domain.

Fair Use Guidelines For Educational Multimedia. This nonlegislative report was adopted by the Subcommittee on Courts and Intellectual Property, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives, on September 27, 1996. More information including a list of endorsing organizations is available here.

Fair Use Guidelines for Off-Air Recording of Broadcast Programming.


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