Legal Overview of Fair Use (Video)
Above: Video from Web Pro News
This video might be a little vague, in general fair use means you can use excerpts of someone’s work without permission.
If in doubt, it is best to
- ask permission,
- quote and credit the original work,
- and/or create a link back to the work or the author.
Your best bet is to always ask an attorney that specializes in this type of law.
As an author, I have been a bit miffed at those who take my work without permission and without credit.
Under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act you can actually get some help with duplicate material that has been taken from you.
After a request has been ignored, the website violating the terms can actually face consequences from their domain host or search engines.
Best practices are to be fair to those who have created the works by asking permission, crediting the author of the original work, and creating a back link to that work online–if you can.
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