Fair Use for the Classroom and Course Reserves

Copyright includes a specific exemption for instructors and students to use legally acquired works in face-to-face classroom spaces for instructional, not entertainment, purposes. These works can include the printed word as well as images, music, and videos. 

You can make multiple copies of the following for classroom use:

• Chapter from a book
• Article from a periodical or newspaper
• Short story, short essay, or short poem, whether or not from a collective work
• Chart, graph, diagram, drawing, cartoon or picture from a book, periodical or newspaper

However, copies for the classroom:

• Should not exceed more than one copy per student in a course
• Are used in only one course and not across multiple semesters
• All copied works should be accompanied by an appropriate copyright notice 

‘Consumable’ works, such as workbooks, exercises, and test booklets are NOT covered under fair use guidelines for education. You need to seek permission from the copyright holder before making copies of them.

Special note about student work: Students' original work is covered by copyright and permissions must be sought for posting student work online, for publishing, and other purposes. This includes uploading student produced work to generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Bard, and others. Anonymized student work can be used for programmatic assessment.