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This chapter focuses on getting permission to use copyrighted works for academic purposes. It provides information on assembling academic coursepacks and using copyrighted material in the classroom. The chapter also includes form agreements you can use to obtain clearances for coursepacks and information on educational fair use guidelines. This information has its own chapter because there are special legal rules that apply to academic uses, as well as special services that can help educators obtain academic permissions.

The first half of this chapter focuses on the most common need for academic permission—permission to compile a collection of copyrighted materials used for teaching into a “coursepack” or “reader.” The second half of the chapter is devoted to an analysis of academic fair use guidelines, under which permission is not required for educational use of copyrighted materials.

  1. Academic Coursepacks
    1. Coursepacks and Copyright
    2. Obtaining Clearance for Coursepacks
    3. Using a Clearance Service
    4. Assembling Your Own Coursepack
  2. Educational Uses of Non-Coursepack Materials
    1. Educational Fair Use Guidelines
    2. Rules for Reproducing Text Materials for Use in Class
    3. Rules for Reproducing Music
    4. Rules for Recording and Showing Television Programs
  3. Proposed (But Not Adopted) Educational Guidelines on Fair Use
    1. Proposed Guidelines for Digital Copying
    2. Proposed Guidelines for Using Digitized Images in Lectures, Scholarly Presentations or Publications
    3. Proposed Guidelines for Students or Instructors Preparing Multimedia Works
  4. Library Photocopying
  5. Academic Permission Resources
    1. Coursepack Resources
    2. Educational Fair Use Guidelines

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