"Fair Use" enables educators to use copyrighted materials without permission but with due diligence. Your attempt at a fair use analysis in good faith must be established. Please note that while due diligence in the analysis of fair use and the recording of this due diligence and good faith is helpful in a court of law, it is not a guarantee of a finding of fair use in court. Stanford University Libraries offers several tools and charts you may use to clarify and establish due diligence.
When you have completed one of the tools and recorded your responses, determine if the analysis you have made tips the balance toward Fair Use or toward asking permission. If you determine that the balance tips in favor of Fair Use, be sure to use the material only in the way you represented in the analysis. Save your documentation as evidence of due diligence.
When Fair Use applies
When Fair Use applies to a resource to be used for educational purposes and Mayo Libraries does not own the material:
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Instructors need to help support Mayo's compliance with copyright/licensing guidelines. Best practices for documenting copyright compliance include
For more information, see the Copyright page published by Mayo Clinic Legal Department.