150 WORD ARTICLE

Fair Use And The Internet [IV]

Or… Understanding exactly what it is, and how it may affect you.

Image by Author :)

Quoting A Copyrighted Work

I am not a lawyer, this is NOT legal advice…

I wanted to utilise a quotation from a book for one of my 150-word articles, so I did a bit of research into the Fair Use Doctrine.

When re-using copyrighted material (in this case, using a quotation from the book) these are some questions:

1. Is your use for “purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research”?
2. Is the purpose and character of the use commercial?
3. Is the nature of the underlying work highly creative?
4. How much of the copyrighted material did you use?
5. Will your use of the quote cause the author to lose money?

Answers:

1. Using it for comment
2. It is commercial (as I am on the MPP)
3. Yes, therefore strong copyright protection
4. 38 Words
5. Unlikely — people should go and buy this book now

Hopefully, I am in the clear.

You may want to follow this tag, or bookmark this list.

If you like my work or want to write — you can sign up below — it helps to fund my writing. Cheers!

Join Medium with my referral link — synapticloop