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Bentley University Copyright Policy
This policy is intended as a resource for the Bentley University community. It is designed to educate the community on current U.S. copyright law, provide guidance in the use of copyrighted materials for teaching or scholarship, and ensure compliance with federal copyright law.

Fair Use Week Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week is an annual celebration of the important doctrines of fair use and fair dealing. It is designed to highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines.
Fair Use: 12 Myths and Realities From Fair Use Week, this list helps to clarify some of the misconceptions of fair use.
Copyright and Fair Use Founded by the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School to provide legal support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom and protect important public rights.
U.S. Copyright Office Fair Use Index The Fair Use Index tracks a variety of judicial decisions to help both lawyers and non-lawyers better understand the types of uses courts have previously determined to be fair—or not fair.
Copyright Crash Course - Fair Use Part of an educational series on copyright created by Georgia K. Harper from the University of Texas Libraries.
Fair Use Library The Center for Media and Social Impact develops tools to better understand how to employ fair use, the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment, under some circumstances. Filmmakers, journalists, teachers, visual arts professionals, librarians, archivists and more all have collaborated with CMSI to clarify how fair use works with their most common practices.

Fair Use Evaluator A tool developed by the ALA Copyright Advisory Network to assist libraries in evaluating whether a proposed use is fair.
Fair Use Quiz The quiz, created by MIT Libraries, is designed to help users better understand the core concepts of copyright law’s “fair use” provision.
Fair Use Checklist Use Cornell University's Fair Use Checklist to document your own evaluation of material being considered for use in course-related instruction.