Codes of Best Practices

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Poetry

This code of best practices helps poets understand when they and others have the right to excerpt, quote and use copyrighted material in poetry. To create this code, poets came together to articulate...

Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-Related Materials

Produced by the Dance Heritage Coalition, the code clarifies what librarians, archivists, curators, and others working with dance-related materials currently regard as a reasonable application of...

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries

This is a code of best practices in fair use devised specifically by and for the academic and research library community. It enhances the ability of librarians to rely on fair use by documenting the...

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts

More than 200 artists, art historians, editors, curators, and staff of other visual arts institutions have contributed to the development of this Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use for the...

Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use

This Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use makes clear what documentary filmmakers currently regard as reasonable application of the copyright Fair Use doctrine. Fair use expresses the core value...