What is the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare?
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare is a document that provides guidance on how fair use applies to common intellectual property situations that publishers of open courseware material confront in their work. It provides support and guidance for everyone involved in such publications so that they can make their own reasoned and informed judgments about fair use. It addresses five areas of the most common recurrent situations in which copyrighted content is used in on-line learning materials: • copyrighted material appears incidentally; • copyrighted material is used for critique and analysis; • copyrighted material is used for illustration; • copyrighted material is used for demonstration and explanation; and • copyrighted material appears in assigned and supplementary materials.
