Fair Use Guidelines

How to Use Images, Text, and Other Media in Your Class Work

The Fair Use Guidelines say that you can put many kinds of information into your school papers, PowerPoints, and web pages. You need to cite (give a reference to) any information you didn’t create yourself.

Whenever you paste an image, text, or a video into your work you should immediately add a citation for where you got the information. Otherwise you will probably forget where you got it and won’t be able to properly cite it.

As soon as you publish your work (including on the Internet), these Fair Use Guidelines no longer apply. You must get permission from the copyright holder for everything you use. We will talk about how to do that.

What can I use in my school work?

Read this PowerPoint presentation:

http://www.massnetworks.org/resources/netday/fairuseguide.ppt

How should information be cited?

Your website should include a statement like:

Photos are included in accordance with the multimedia fair use guidelines, and materials are restricted from further use.

Include the following:

• The title, author, and date the material was created
• The source of the material (name and URL).
• The date you downloaded the material
• The copyright notice (if any).

For example

Photo Credit: House in Horse Creek decorated for Halloween, photo by Lynthia Scott Eiler, 1996. Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center. Downloaded October 30, 2005 from http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afccmns.lec15912.

Where can I find free photos?

Try these sites:

http://mciu.org/~spjvweb/cfimages.html

http://joycevalenza.com/cfart.html