Fair Use Questionnaire

Pro Fair Use (Affirmative answers to these questions are weighted toward fair use.)

• Is it for teaching purposes?
• Will a not-for-profit institution use it for an educational purpose?
• Will the use of the source further scholarship, criticism or comments on a work, or the reporting of news?
• Will the new work build upon, rather than simply restate, the content of the original work?
• Is access to the new work or the reproduction of the original work restricted?
• Is the new work a parody of the original work?

Con Fair Use (Affirmative answers to these questions are weighted against fair use.)

• Is the new work created for a commercial purpose?
• Will the authors of the new work profit from its use?
• Is the new work used for entertainment?
• Is the author of the new work attempting to avoid compliance with copyright law?
• Does the new work fail to acknowledge the original author?