Fair Use in the Classroom: Journal Articles

Writing teachers have always had to contend with plagiarism. However, the technology of the Internet and the thorny issues of copyright law complicate how we teach legal and ethical use of others' materials in the networked classroom.

This article considers how the future development and use of three-dimensional printing may be facilitated or inhibited through intellectual property law and practice.

The rights of free speech, to search for truth, to strive for self-realization, and to participate in the processes of self-government, are guaranteed in the first amendment; but these rights would not be possible without the grant of public access to information provided by the doctrine of fair use in the copyright clause.

At Georgia State and elsewhere, they duel with librarians over the future of scholarly content

A dynamic professorial duo leaps to the defense of beleaguered scholars

The fair use doctrine makes copyright law more flexible, but it also creates uncertainty.

The concept of fair use was introduced in the Copyright Act of 1976 as a means of allowing limited free access to copyrighted material. However, the application of fair use principles in the adjudication of infringement cases has demonstrated a fundamental problem in our approach to intellectual property rights.