An infographic that depicts and draws awareness to the many instances in which college students rely on fair use throughout a typical day

Fair Use Week,

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Clemson University: TigerPrints

Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College StudentFair use is a vitally important right for everybody, everywhere. A typical day in the life of a student shows the ways she constantly relies on fair use.How Allison Relies on Fair Use on Campuschecking emailAllison forwards to her brother an e-mail from her cousin that includes five attached pictures from last weekend’s football game and tailgate.1in classIn Allison’s English class, the professor mentions places James Baldwin frequented in Paris. Allison looks them up online and views photos of these locations and landmarks.2finishing a paperAllison scans materials from the library for her paper on James Baldwin. In her paper she includes quotes from Baldwin’s essays and from criticisms by Baldwin scholars.3 onlineAllison forgot to scan or note one of her sources, so she looks up the quote in Google Books.  The search gives her the name of the book and page number seconds later and she is able to turn her paper in on time.4relaxing over lunchWaiting in line, Allison watches a clip from John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight that a friend posted on Facebook. She shares the clip on her own Facebook page.5 watching showsWhile eating, Allison watches an episode of Game of Thrones, which was “slung” to her cell phone from her DVR.61.  Allison makes temporary copies when she accesses the e-mail.  Forwarding the note and photographs involves reproduction and distribution of her cousin’s works. Allison’s brother’s computer will make more copies to access the forwarded e-mail.2. The search engine makes copies of the images. Allison’s computer makes temporary copies when she views the images online.3. Quotations involve direct reproduction of portions of these works.4.  Google Books reproduced more than 20 million books when it scanned and indexed these works, making them machine readable and ingesting them into the Google Books database. The public is able to query the database with search terms. 5.  Allison’s iPad makes temporary copies to access and view the video clip. Allison engages in further distribution of the clip by posting it to her own  Facebook page.  6. Allison’s DVR made a copy of the episode of Game of Thrones. Temporary copies are made on servers. How Allison Relies on Fair Use at Homegoing homeAllison takes a selfie with a bus stop advertisement for the new Star Wars movie that contains images of Rey and Han Solo.7doing homeworkAt home, Allison starts a research project for her political science class.  She reads the news article her professor posted to Blackboard.8 Then she uses a search engine to find relevant online articles in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other news outlets.9 She pastes the links and full text of the articles into an e-mail to her class partner.10remixingAfter dinner, Allison finishes an assignment for her literature and pop culture class.  She posts a remix video of music and clips from film adaptations of Jane Austen novels to YouTube and sends the link to her professor.11relaxing before bedFinished with her homework, she writes a chapter of fan fiction based on Harry Potter.She posts the chapter to her blog and to FanFiction.net.12 Throughout the day, without even knowing it, Allison engages in many instances of reproduction and distribution of copyrighted works without the authorization of the rightholder. Fortunately, she can rely on the fair use doctrine, which permits such copying.  7. The selfie includes a reproduction of the advertisement.  8. Her professor makes a copy when he posts it to Blackboard. Allison’s computer makes additional copies when she accesses the article to read it.  9.  The search engine makes copies of the news articles in its search database. Allison’s computer makes temporary copies when she views the articles online.10.  Allison makes a temporary copy of these websites when she views them. She also makes digital copies of the text in the e-mail server when she sends them to her class partner.  11.  Allison makes copies of the Jane Austen film excerpts and creates a derivative work. She makes additional copies when she uploads the remix to YouTube. She distributes it when she posts it to YouTube and when she sends the link to her professor.12. Allison’s fan fiction is a derivative work. Posting it to her blog and FanFiction.net makes additional copies of the derivative work.Commissioned by Free to share and reuse Design by For more information and additional resources, visit fairuseweek.org.

Fair Use in a Day in the Life of a College Student

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