Spotlight for Career Services Professionals
As career services professionals take face-to-face and group meetings online and work remotely with students, a group of copyright experts came together to craft a statement on copyright and what qualifies as “fair use.”
In Fair Use & Emergency Remote Teaching & Research, the copyright specialists and librarians say, “We encourage the use of already-licensed online content, openly licensed, and public domain alternatives” and “U.S. copyright law is, thankfully, well equipped to provide the flexibility necessary for the vast majority of remote learning needed at this time.”
The group offers additional resources, including: