Fair Use Resources

Center for Social Media releases Code of Best Practices for Media Literacy

The Center for Social Media continues to radically intervene in debates over copyright and fair use with this extraordinarily well-researched and clear-headed guide to fair use for media literacy educators. It's difficult to imagine a field that is more dependent on fair use and, especially in K-12 education, more inundated with bad information about fair use. This guide gently but insistently debunks the culture of fear and overstatement that has accompanied previous efforts to define best practices, while highlighting five fair use contexts that are crucial to the robust functioning of media literacy education. We regard this guide and, indeed, each of the previous Best Practices guides from CSM, as required reading and we cannot recommend this work to you highly enough: Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education