The following resources provide best practices in fair use in fields relevant to AUD's programs and may be of interest. Please do note that they may include references to additional exceptions in US copyright law, for example, "face-to-face" instruction and distance education. These exceptions do not apply to for-profit educational institutions and are not included in UAE copyright law.
Films & Documentaries
Compiled by The Society for Cinema and Media Studies. It deals with classroom screenings, broadcasts, and derivative works.
Association of Independent Video and Filmmakers
Independent Feature Project
International Documentary Association
National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture
Women in Film and Video, Washington, D.C., Chapter
"Code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use."
CMSI: Center for Media & Social Impact
Visual Arts
College Art Association, 2015
"Based on the consensus of professionals in the visual arts who use copyrighted images, texts,
and other materials in their creative and scholarly work and who, through
discussion groups, identified best practices for using such materials. They included
art and architectural historians, artists, designers, curators, museum directors,
educators, rights and reproduction officers, and editors at scholarly publishers
and journals."
Visual Association Resources: "Describes six uses of copyrighted still images that the Visual Resources Association believes fall within the U.S. doctrine of fair use."
Academic Libraries
Association of Research Libraries
