Checklist for Fair Use

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	Favoring Fair Use	Opposing Fair Use
Purpose	Teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use) Research Scholarship Nonprofit Educational Institute Criticism Comment News reporting Transformative or Productive use (changes the work for new utility) Restricted access (to students or other appropriate group) Parody	Commercial activity Profiting from the use Entertainment Bad-faith behavior Denying credit to original author
Nature	Published work Factual or nonfiction based Important to favored educational objectives	Unpublished work Highly creative work (art, music, novels, films, plays) Fiction
Amount	Small quantity Portion used is not central or significant to entire work Amount is appropriate for favored educational purpose	Large portion or whole work is used Portion used is central to work or "heart of the work"
Effect	User owns lawfully acquired or purchased copy of original work One or few copies made No significant effect on the market or potential market for copyrighted work No similar product marketed by the copyright holder Lack of licensing mechanism	Could replace sale of copyrighted work Significantly impairs market or potential market for copyrighted work or derivative Reasonably available licensing mechanism for use of the copyrighted work Affordable permission available for using work Numerous copies made You made it accessible on Web or in other public forum Repeated or long term use

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Checklist for Fair Use

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