Management Copyright affects faculty, students and staff in The University of Texas System in ways that we could not even imagine a few years ago. If not for advances in electronic communications, and in particular, our love affair with the World Wide Web, we may have been able to get by with nothing more than a basic statement about fair use . Today that approach is not enough. Today we need a copyright policy that goes beyond mere recitation of the statutes or even reference to specific guidelines.
Fair use requires more explanation.
More importantly, fair use is just the starting point. Even if we all understand fair use perfectly, we still would need to know what to do if a proposed use were not fair. Even these questions only cover one aspect of our copyright concerns - the use of others' work. Every educational use is not a fair use. It's not that simple.