Best Practices - Media, Music, Visual Resources

Endorsed by: Electronic Frontier Foundation ; Center for Social Media, School of Communications, American University; Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, Washington College of Law; American University; Public Knowledge; Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School; ACLU of Northern California (as of April 2011)

"Outlines uses of copyrighted still images that the VRA believes fall within fair use including: preservation (storing images for repeated use in a teaching context & transferring images to new formats); use of images for teaching purposes; use of images (large, high-resolution images & thumbnails) on course websites & in other online study materials; adaptations of images for teaching & classroom work by students; & sharing images among educational institutions to facilitate teaching & study."