Copyright and Fair Use

Fair use is an application that can be used in certain instances to use someone else's copyrighted work, without their permission. For fair use to be applicable, there are some guidelines to follow, including only using a small portion of the work, modifying it to make it original, reworking it to use it in a different way, and not gaining any profit from it. It's also important to understand that fair use can only be used in certain instances, like for schoolwork, news reports, commenting or parodies. For the work that I do in this class, I think I can apply fair use to the music pieces that I choose for my videos, because most of them are probably copyrighted, and I should be weary with how much of a song I use and in what way. I don't think I'll have a problem with gaining any profit for my videos, but I think I should also be concerned with using others' clips, and that when I do it's only a small portion, and I give them credit nonetheless.