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US Copyright Law and the Fair Use Doctrine |Fair Use in Education and Research, Columbia
University Library, Copyright Advisory Office
Fair Use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes is determined by four factors
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature
or is for nonprofit educational purposes
2. the nature of the copyrighted work
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a
whole and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
US Copyright Office: How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work (PDF)
Learn about Public Domain |Copyright Term and the Public Domain Chart (Cornell University)
A work of authorship is in the “public domain” if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to
meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the public domain may be used freely without the
permission of the former copyright owner.
Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)
Developed by the Visual Resources Association, the Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)
program assists the user to assess the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work
of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment so that the user can make informed
decisions regarding the intended educational uses of that image.
Images for Academic Publishing and ARTstor
Certain images provided by the Met available through ARTstor are publication-quality images and are
available free-of-charge for use in scholarly publications. These images will have an IAP icon below the
thumbnail. Users will have to agree to a terms and conditions statement to download the publication-
quality images.
Yale University Library Copyright Circulars
Read about Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. vs Corel Corporation, US District Court, 1998
United Kingdom-based company, which marketed transparencies and CD±ROMs of reproductions of public
domain works of art brought suit against Canadian corporation, alleging copyright infringement, violation of the
Lanham Act, and unfair competition. Upon defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint
and plaintiff's cross-motion for partial summary judgment, the District Court, Kaplan, J., held that: (1) United
Kingdom-based company's transparencies and CD±ROMs lacked sufficient originality to be copyrightable under
United Kingdom law (2) even if company's images were copyrightable, company did not make out its claim of
infringement and (3) company failed to establish violation of Lanham Act.
Association of Research Libraries 2007 Know Your Copyrights Brochure for Teaching Faculty
Center for Social Media Best Practices for Fair Use
Trending. ..Open Access Images
With the launch of NGA Images, the
National Gallery of Art implements an open
access policy for digital images of works of
art that the Gallery believes to be in the
public domain. Images of these works are
now available free of charge for any use,
commercial or non-commercial. Users do
not need to contact the Gallery for
authorization to use these images. NGA
Images offers more than 20,000 open
access images. Click here for recent
additions.
For more open access images, see
ARTstor's Images for Academic Publishing
(IAP) initiaitve.
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US Copyright Office
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Visual Resources Tags: art, art_history, digital_images, history of art, images, pictures, visual, visual_culture
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YALE UNIVERSITY
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http://guides.library.yale.edu/content.php?pid=47735&sid=354470
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VRC: Services &Hours General Image Resources Image Resources by Subject Museum Collections Advanced Research
Copyright &Citation Help Digital Image Help Video Tutorials Images in Dissertations Site Index and Related Guides
Copyright and Image Citation
Copyright Info |Citation Info
Copyright Information
US Copyright Office
US Copyright Law and the Fair Use Doctrine |Fair Use in Education and Research, Columbia
University Library, Copyright Advisory Office
Fair Use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes is determined by four factors
1. the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature
or is for nonprofit educational purposes
2. the nature of the copyrighted work
3. the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a
whole and
4. the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
US Copyright Office: How to Investigate the Copyright Status of a Work (PDF)
Learn about Public Domain |Copyright Term and the Public Domain Chart (Cornell University)
A work of authorship is in the “public domain” if it is no longer under copyright protection or if it failed to
meet the requirements for copyright protection. Works in the public domain may be used freely without the
permission of the former copyright owner.
Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)
Developed by the Visual Resources Association, the Digital Image Rights Computator (DIRC)
program assists the user to assess the intellectual property status of a specific image documenting a work
of art, a designed object, or a portion of the built environment so that the user can make informed
decisions regarding the intended educational uses of that image.
Images for Academic Publishing and ARTstor
Certain images provided by the Met available through ARTstor are publication-quality images and are
available free-of-charge for use in scholarly publications. These images will have an IAP icon below the
thumbnail. Users will have to agree to a terms and conditions statement to download the publication-
quality images.
Yale University Library Copyright Circulars
Read about Bridgeman Art Library, Ltd. vs Corel Corporation, US District Court, 1998
United Kingdom-based company, which marketed transparencies and CD±ROMs of reproductions of public
domain works of art brought suit against Canadian corporation, alleging copyright infringement, violation of the
Lanham Act, and unfair competition. Upon defendant's motion for summary judgment dismissing the complaint
and plaintiff's cross-motion for partial summary judgment, the District Court, Kaplan, J., held that: (1) United
Kingdom-based company's transparencies and CD±ROMs lacked sufficient originality to be copyrightable under
United Kingdom law (2) even if company's images were copyrightable, company did not make out its claim of
infringement and (3) company failed to establish violation of Lanham Act.
Association of Research Libraries 2007 Know Your Copyrights Brochure for Teaching Faculty
Center for Social Media Best Practices for Fair Use
Trending. ..Open Access Images
With the launch of NGA Images, the
National Gallery of Art implements an open
access policy for digital images of works of
art that the Gallery believes to be in the
public domain. Images of these works are
now available free of charge for any use,
commercial or non-commercial. Users do
not need to contact the Gallery for
authorization to use these images. NGA
Images offers more than 20,000 open
access images. Click here for recent
additions.
For more open access images, see
ARTstor's Images for Academic Publishing
(IAP) initiaitve.
US Copyright Office RSS Feed
US Copyright Office
S.912 Television Consumer Freedom
Act of 2013
View Website
View Feed
Visual Resources Tags: art, art_history, digital_images, history of art, images, pictures, visual, visual_culture
The Yale University Visual Resources Collection's guide to digital image resources.
Copyright &Citation Help Comments(0) Print Page Search: This Guide ●Search
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