Integrating Content in Online Courses

This provides Broward College faculty with basic information about copyright law and fair use in an academic setting. This guide is not meant to offer or substitute for legal advice.

Information about the Fair Use Doctrine including the four factors to be considered in determining whether something is fair use as well as analysis tools.

Complete this fair use evaluator tool. If you determine fair use is in your favor, allowing you to use the copyrighted works for the purposes of teaching your online course, then print, sign, date, and archive the document for your records. This documentation could prove valuable should you ever be asked by a copyright holder to provide your fair use evaluation and the data you used to support it.