Fair Use

Cookbook Recipes as Textbooks

Question

An instructor has loaded many scanned pages from a cookbook (possibly multiple cookbooks) into her class Blackboard page so that students do not have to purchase a textbook.

Legal Request

Question

A law practice in is litigating a case.  They have contacted us asking for all relevant materials.

Copying of College Textbook Chapters

Question

Our question concerns the copying of college textbook chapters for students where the required textbook is either backordered by the bookstore day one of semester or where a late

Sharing Articles

Question

I encountered a situation in which a patron wanted to share an article that I sent to [a not-for-profit organization’s] educational portal.

Reformatting VHS

Question

We are shifting away from VHS here on this campus (along with everywhere else), and have a question from an instructor about transferring a VHS tape to DVD.

Photocopying Music Scores

Question

We have a request from a patron from another state for scans or photocopies of music scores that we own and that are still under copyright.