Several organizations have provided guidelines or best practices to help define fair use for specific audiences or types of content. These best practices provide an important framework for educators, in particular, in the event your decision supporting fair use is questioned by a court of law. American University’s Center for Social Media has compiled many of these documents (see CSM’s Best Practices), or you may link to the document in the list below that is most applicable to your current needs).
- American Musicological Society’s Best Practices in the Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials in Music Scholarship
- American Society of Media Photographers’ Best Practices for Posting Images and Video
- Association of Research Libraries Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
- Association of Research Libraries Report: Fair Use Challenges in Academic and Research Lib
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open CourseWare
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication
- Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
- Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Fair Use Principles for User Generated Video Content
- Poetry Foundation’s Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry
- Society of American Archivists Statement of Best Practices on Orphan Works
- Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ State of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media Educators
- Visual Resources Association Statement of the Fair Use of Images for Teaching, Research, and Study
