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Articles on fair use in online teaching

Fair Use and Exigent Circumstances
Part One of "COVID-19, Copyright, & Library Superpowers," by Kyle K. Courtney (Copyright Advisor for Harvard University)
Fair Use and Online Learning
Deanna Marcum, Ithaka S+R, August 27, 2015
Toward a Fair Use Standard
Pierre N. Leval, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 103, No. 5 (Mar., 1990), pp. 1105-1136
Making Sense of Fair Use
Neil Weinstock Netanel, Lewis & Clark Law Review, Vol. 15, No. 3 (2011), pp. 715–771.
Resources on Copyright & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research
Library Copyright Experts have joined together to provide these resources for higher education, including college, research, community college, and special libraries
Note: This is an evolving document.

Fair use checklists

Fair use checklists help you focus on the facts of a given situation in order to to better evaluate how fair use might apply. They also assist you in recording your decision-making process and serve as proof of your good-faith effort to apply fair use if your use is challenged by a rightsholder.

Fair Use Checklist
Checklist help teachers make fair use decisions but they do not insulate from liability.
Fair Use in General
From the University of Minnesota University Libraries
Fair Use Evaluator
Useful to determine if copyrighted material you find online can be used under fair use.

Codes of best practices in fair use and similar resources

The Center for Media & Social Impact at American University has worked with various groups of content creators to help them document practices in their communities that are widely considered to be fair use. Courts take into account the common practices of a given community when deciding fair use cases. Each Code includes principles describing how and why fair use applies to a given practice or situation as well as limitations that should be observed to strengthen the case for fair use.