This document discusses fair use and provides tools for assessing whether use of copyrighted works qualifies as fair use. It outlines the four factors considered in a fair use analysis, including the purpose and commercial nature of the use. It also discusses the increasing importance of transformative fair use and provides examples of cases before and after this standard. Finally, it lists several checklists and tools that can help evaluate whether a specific use would be considered fair use.

1. P2P COPYRIGHT NETWORK
March 2016
Fair Use

2. Four Factors of Fair UseImage courtesy of cloud_nine
• Purpose & character of use,
including commerciality
• Nature of the work
• Amount and substantiality of part
used
• Effect on the market or on the
work’s value

3. Increasing Importance of Transformational Fair UseJahttp://ronetlcnaptown.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/2-live-crew-456-12312.jpg

4. Two Cases: Before and After the
Transformative Fair Use Analysis

5. Tools for Assessing Fair Use
• Fair Use Checklist: The Original
• Preamble https://copyright.columbia.edu/basics/fair-use/fair-use-
checklist.html
• Checklist
https://copyright.columbia.edu/content/dam/copyright/Precedent%20Docs/f
airusechecklist.pdf
• Fair Use Evaluator http://librarycopyright.net/resources/fairuse/
• University of Minnesota: Thinking Through Fair Use
https://www.lib.umn.edu/copyright/fairthoughts
• Ohio State University Mobile-Friendly Fair Use Checklist
https://hsl.osu.edu/copyright/fair-use-checklist

6. Additional Fair Use Cases
By gunnar_maas (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons
http://circleboston.org/worlds-sholem-aleichem

7. A Floor and Some T-Shirts…Cases from
Libraries