What is the meaning of "fair use"?
Remember the intent of copyright:
"to promote the progress of science and the useful arts."Authors are given a mini-monopoly to reproduce, distribute, adapt, perform and display their work to encourage development of new work.
If this mini-monopoly would interfere with the "general" production of more new work, however, limitations will be placed upon it.
Fair Use gives scholars, researchers, authors, etc., permission to make limited use of the work of another without asking permission.
| Educational use is not automatically covered by fair use. |
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Carol Scheftic
(based on original work at
The Geometry Center
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