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1. The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit purposes;

2. The nature of the copyrighted work; fair use generally applies to non-fiction;

3. The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and

4. The effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.

• US Government Documents

• Works in the public domain, i.e. not covered by copyright because of date or because the author did not choose to copyright the work

• Works that lack originality e.g. phone book

• Ideas, processes, methods, and systems described in copyrighted works

• Facts

• Freeware

• Materials that are created by the faculty (such as lecture notes, exams, and syllabi)

• A journal article that appears full-text in a Dominican University subscribed on-line database

• A single journal article used for one semester

• A single book chapter used for one semester

• Works of art used for one semester

• Brief selections from a journal article or book chapter

• A journal article, or book chapter that has been previously placed on electronic reserve or Blackboard

• Multiple chapters from a single book or multiple articles from a single issue of a journal

• Documents that are consumable in the course of study or teaching ( e.g workbooks, exercises)

• Fictional and other creative works (e.g. a poem, a play)

• Articles or parts of books that are copied and sold as course packets

1. Faculty should carefully review the copyrighted material to be used and determine whether they need to obtain permission from the copyright owner or if the document is covered by the principles of fair use. For example, if the journal article has been posted on Blackboard or electronic reserve for your class during a semester and you want to use the same article again the following semester, a copyright permission must be sought from the copyright owner. Permission must be sought for each subsequent use.

2. Faculty are responsible for providing a complete bibliographic citation (including title, author, copyright or publication date, volume, issue and edition of the publication, chapter or article title, and the exact page numbers of the material to be used), and the approximate number of students in the class. Please use the attached form for submitting copyright permission requests.

3. For Blackboard requests, faculty should submit a copyright permission form to the library copyright permission center. For electronic reserves, faculty should submit a copy of the reserve form, a photocopy of the article (unless it is already in electronic format), and a copyright permission form to the reserve librarian.

4. In order to have adequate time to process the electronic reserve, materials that are not protected by fair use must be submitted four weeks in advance so that library staff will have enough time to request permission from the copyright owner. Materials will be placed on electronic reserve upon receipt of the faculty request to obtain permission. Permission will be requested immediately.

5. Library staff will obtain permission from the copyright owner. If permission is refused, the article will be removed from the electronic reserve and faculty will be notified. For Blackboard permission requests, faculty will be notified of any refusal.

6. For electronic reserves, every class will have its own password to access class material. It is the responsibility of the faculty to provide password to the reserve librarian and to their students. The articles on electronic reserve are only available to students in that class. Librarians will not have access to the password or the material and will be unable to assist students who have forgotten the password.

7. Library staff will disable electronic reserve documents in the system at the end of each semester. As necessary, copyright permission will be required to replace electronic reserve documents in the system.

8. Documentation of copyright permission will be maintained by the library copyright permission center.