Academic Integrity

Fair Use

Fair use protects some very important rights, including:

• The ability of scholars to quote from other sources to build an argument or to criticize
• The ability to transform works into new scholarship, such as text and data mining
• The ability to parody works
• The ability of artists to create works inspired by others

These are considered “transformative” uses, provided that a sufficiently “new” work is created and it doesn’t hurt the market for the original work—more subjective determinations.

A word to the wise:

Just because something qualifies as fair use doesn’t mean you don’t have to cite your source. You should always give credit to the original source.