Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week Day 3 Roundup

Last Updated on July 9, 2022, 9:41 am ET

This year, libraries, universities, and civil society groups celebrate Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week February 21–25.

Fair use (in the US) and fair dealing (in Canada and other jurisdictions) is a right that allows the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Association of Research Libraries (ARL) President K. Matthew Dames, the Edward H. Arnold University Librarian for the University of Notre Dame, says of fair use: “Fair use is an indispensable tool allowing librarians, researchers, journalists, and the public to access and use copyrighted original sources, which is critical to understanding the truth of any issue. Along with rights that Congress specifically granted to libraries, fair use propels the advancement of culture and knowledge, which is the fundamental purpose of copyright.”

For this year’s Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week, ARL partnered with the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) #MediaWell project to interview experts reflecting on the question of how fair use supports research, journalism, and truth. You can find those interviews below, along with a roundup of blog posts, projects, and events from fair users around the globe.

Day 3 (Wednesday, February 23)

Blog Posts/News

• “Fair Use and Fanfiction,” Thomas Jefferson University Library News blog
• “Fair Use Extends to Software Code,” Laura Vlieg, Arizona State University Library
• “Fair Use Week,” University of Hawaiʻi at West Oʻahu James & Abigail Campbell Library
• “Happy Fair Use/Fair Dealing Week 2022!,” Pat Aufderheide, Center for Media and Social Impact Blog
• “How Fair Use Helps Bloggers Publish Their Research,” Eric Goldman, ARL Views blog
• “NLM relies on #FairUse to provide publicly accessible historical books, images, & videos important to scholarship & research,” tweet thread by National Library of Medicine
• “Two Questions on Fair Use: Interview with Rebekah Tromble,” MediaWell
• “Using Copyright Content Fairly,” Red River College Polytechnic Library and Academic Services

Events

• “Best Practices for OER in Canada: A Fresh Look at Fair Dealing for Educational Use,” Lower Mainland Consortium and Alberta Consortium
• “Copyright Criminals—A Documentary & Discussion on Sampling & Hip-Hop,” hosted by Florida Atlantic University
• “Creative Reuse at Kent: Fair Dealing in Education and Research,” hosted by University of Kent
• “Fair Dealing’s Future–Artificial Intelligence or Willful Ignorance?,” Lower Mainland Consortium and Alberta Consortium

Resources

• Fair Use Week 2022 Videos by Pat Aufderheide, American University School of Communication
  • Documentary Filmmaking and Fair Use
  • Fair Use and Journalism
  • Fair Use and Visual Arts
  • Fair Use as an Affirmative Right
  • Myths about Fair Use

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