Some Copies are OK Because

they are "Fair Uses"

SEATWORK

02-06-09

There's one other rule that lets many people lawfully copy others' work: The fair use doctrine.

The fair use doctrine asks several questions:

1. Is your use noncommercial? YES
2. Is your use for purposes of criticism, comment, parody, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research? YES
3. Is the original work mostly fact (as opposed to mostly fiction or opinion)? YES
4. Has the original work been published (as opposed to sent out only to one or a few people)? YES
5. Are you copying only a small part of the original work? YES
6. Are you copying only a relatively insignificant part of the original work (as opposed to the most important part)? NO
7. Are you adding a lot new to the work (as opposed to just quoting parts of the original)? YES
8. Does your conduct leave unaffected any profits that the copyright owner can make (as opposed to displacing some potential sales OR potential licenses of reprint rights)? YES