Copyright for the Fine & Performing Arts: Exercising Fair Use
Fair Use Evaluation
Use these tools to gauge whether your use of copyrighted works is within your Fair Use rights.
- Fair Use EvaluatorAmerican Library Association
- Image Use Matrix (part of "Digital Image Rights Computator")Visual Resources Association.
Association of Research Libraries
Using Copyrighted Materials in Projects and Theses
The University of Utah's Graduate School now requires all dissertations and Master's theses to be distributed and archived in USpace: the University of Utah's institutional repository. USpace is a publicly accessible online archive, and your work will be publicly visible. If you have used substantial portions of someone else's copyrighted work in your dissertation or thesis materials, consider completing a "Fair Use Evaluation" or contacting the Copyright Librarian at Marriott Library to help you determine if you need to seek permission from the copyright holder(s).
Fair Use Best Practices in the Arts
A variety of arts and media organizations provide resources to guide you through the best practices for fair use.
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy EducationCenter for Media & Social Impact
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online VideoCenter for Media and Social Impact
- Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair UseCenter for Media & Social Impact
- Code of Best Practices for Sustainable FilmmakingCenter for Media & Social Impact
- Fair Usage Publication of Film StillsSociety for Cinema Studies
- Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use in Teaching for Film and Media EducatorsSociety for Cinema and Media Studies
- Statement of Fair Use Best Practices for Media Studies PublishingSociety for Cinema and Media Studies
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Scholarly Research in CommunicationCenter for Media and Social Impact
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Software PreservationCenter for Media & Social Impact
- Copyright and ChoreographyDance USA
- Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-related MaterialsDance Heritage Coalition
- Copyright Basics for Dance WorksDance USA
- Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-Related MaterialsCenter for Media & Social Impact
- Research in CommunicationCenter for Social Media
- Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual ArtsCollege Art Association