How much of copyrighted work am I allowed to copy under the “fair use” provisions of copyright law?
Less is best. The more content used, the greater the likelihood that your use will not be protected by “fair use” provisions. Best practices offer the following as “fair” amounts of several types of content: • Audiovisual content Instruction: Only the portion required to accomplish a specific educational goal, which may sometimes include small or short works in their entirety. Multimedia production: Up to 10%, but in no event more than 30 seconds of an individual musical work and up to 10% or 3 minutes of a visual work. • Data sets: Up to 10% or 2500 fields or cell entries. • Graphics: A single cartoon, chart, diagram, drawing, graph or illustration. • Music (sheet): No more than 10% of the whole work. • Photographs: No more than 15 photographs or 10% of a collection, whichever is less. • Poetry: A single poem of not more than 250 words or an excerpt of not more than 250 words. • Prose: Whichever of the following options represents the least amount of content: o A single chapter. o A s
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