“ The Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia provide for specific limits on the amount of copyrighted works that may be used.
* For motion media -(e.g., video clips) up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less.
* For text- up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever less.
* For poems - o up to 250 words. o Three poem limit per poet o Five poem limit by different poets from an anthology.
* For music - up to 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is less.
* For photos and images o Up to 5 works from one author. o Up to 10% or 15 works, whichever is less, from a collection.
* Database information— up to 10% or 2,500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less. (from Copyright Bay)

Steven’s PLN: Fair Use

Wonder if this is applicable across borders. I’ll need to check that out.

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posted : Thursday, July 16th, 2009

“ So for non-lawgeeks, this won’t seem important. But trust me, this is huge. I am very proud to report today that the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (THE “IP” court in the US) has upheld a free (ok, they call them “open source”) copyright license, explicitly pointing to the work of Creative Commons and others. (The specific license at issue was the Artistic License.) This is a very important victory, and I am very very happy that the Stanford Center for Internet and Society played a key role in securing it. Congratulations especially to Chris Ridder and Anthony Falzone at the Center.
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posted : Thursday, August 14th, 2008