Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication | Center for Media & Social Impact

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in Communication | Center for Media & Social Impact: Increasingly, scholars find their research goals stymied because of confusion over their rights to quote copyrighted material, particularly in newer digital formats. Graduate students are being asked by advisors to pick other topics; librarians doubt whether they can archive electronic theses that include illustrative material that is copyrighted; publishers discourage inclusion of evidence that involves copyrighted material.