Misconceptions about Fair Use

Hi everyone,

In this post, I'd like to note two misconceptions about fair use. Fair use allows us to use copyrighted materials without permission or payment under certain circumstances (e.g., teaching, research, parody).


However, you should still give credit to the copyright holder under fair use. Even when you use copyrighted material for educational purposes, let's say for your school assignment, you still have to give full credit to the person who created it by citing the work, including the creator's name, adding a link to the original page, etc.


Furthermore, copyrighted content should only be used as part of your work. It may be considered fair use if you utilize a few relevant photographs to support your arguments in a presentation. However, using the same photographs in a presentation with only a few lines of text may not be considered fair use, even if you gave proper credit.


If you'd like more information about fair use, you may find this page useful: https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/useinformationcorrectly/copyright-and-fair-use/1/