fair use
One of the components of Copyright is fair use. Fair use is ‘…is any copying of copyrighted material done for a limited and "transformative" purpose such as to comment upon, criticize or parody a copyrighted.’ Through fair use, you do not have to have to rights of the author in order to use its work. Fair use allows us to copy an author’s work for our own private work. I think that is what I was trying to say in my previous blogs. Thanks to fair use, we students are able to copy works of authors in the internet and use it on our research papers or projects. As a result, fair use can be used for commentary criticism and parody.
You can check you this video about fair use and google. I think it can help us, especially since we are college students and need the internet to do almost everything. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmU2i1hQiN0
Comments
Posted by: Brian Gray
Posted on: March 25, 2007 11:41 PM
I would look at the official copyright.gov information on "fair use": http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html. It does not allow just pure copying of the other work. Four factors are "weighed" to determine if something is considered fair use: purpose, nature of copyrighted work, amount used, and effect on potential market.