Fair Use Appeal Part 3

Question: How much of the work will be used?

Fair Use is a doctrine that justifies the use of a copyrighted work for predetermined purposes (like analysis, criticism, or news), under certain circumstances. There are four questions one must ask themself in order to determine whether or not the way they used copyrighted work qualifies as “fair use.” One of these deals with time length. According to Purdue OWL, “reproducing only a small part of a copyrighted work is more acceptable than using an entire work.” Fair use doesn’t specify a precise time length for how much copyrighted work can be present in a video, so I recognize that this is all subjective. To ensure that one does not run into such problems he or she should greatly limit the amount of material that they incorporate into their project. In [insert video title here] I only used [insert video length] of [title of copyrighted work] which should be covered under fair use, since the total length of the video was [insert time length here] and I only used [percentage] of it.

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