Fair Use Notice

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• August 11, 2005 @ 8:16amJulia says:

  I have been asked about including a statement on our web site entitled Fair Use Notice. If anyone can tell me the original source that inspired this particular wording, I would appreciate it.
  
  I have been unable so far to track down the origin of this notice. Many, many sites use this, with slight variation in the wording. They refer back to the Cornell site, but the page to which they refer is simply the section from the US Code outlining Fair Use.
  
  What I am trying to find is the source that inspired this particular notice and wording so that I may consider the source of this notice and any explanatory material in deciding whether we wish to use it.
  
  Here is the Notice:
  
  Fair Use Notice: This web site may contain copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright holder(s). "omitted" is operated on the assumption that this using this information constitutes 'fair use' of said copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Julia
• August 26, 2005 @ 8:52amCarrie says:

  Julia:
  
  I have never hear of this fair use notice thing. The only notice wording that I understand to be required by libraries is the photocopy warning over the copying machines and on interlibrary loan forms.
  
  So...this is what I would do.
  Ask the person that asked for the fair use notice in the first place what they really want. Do they want a copyright warning statement on your web site? do they want to explain what fair use is?
  
  then come back to the forum and tell us.
  -carrie
  
  
  [quote]I have been asked about including a statement on our web site entitled Fair Use Notice. If anyone can tell me the original source that inspired this particular wording, I would appreciate it.
  
  I have been unable so far to track down the origin of this notice. Many, many sites use this, with slight variation in the wording. They refer back to the Cornell site, but the page to which they refer is simply the section from the US Code outlining Fair Use.
  
  What I am trying to find is the source that inspired this particular notice and wording so that I may consider the source of this notice and any explanatory material in deciding whether we wish to use it.
  
  Here is the Notice:
  
  Fair Use Notice: This web site may contain copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright holder(s). "omitted" is operated on the assumption that this using this information constitutes 'fair use' of said copyrighted material as provided for in Section 107 of U.S. Copyright Law.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Julia[/quote]
• August 26, 2005 @ 10:20amJulia says:

  Dear Carrie:
  
  I did finally locate an explanation for the origin of this notice at the web site below
  
  http://falcon.arts.cornell.edu/prh3/
  
  The notice is extremely common and used on a wide range of web sites.
  
  You inquired why there was a suggestion to post this notice on our web site. Its use is in connection with a database we prepare of helpful tips for people who are blind or visually impaired. I believe the concern related to the fact that tips written by individuals from outside our organization may, without our knowledge, contain information from other sources. (Yes, we do request that those who submit items for this database of tips include only copyright clear material.) We are a nonprofit, the database is free to use by all via the web, and it includes instructional tips and practical techniques on a wide range of subjects of specific interest to those who are visually impaired. (how to use an abacus; job hunting techniques for those who are blind/visually impaired; organizing one's clothes) The department responsible for this database asked my opinion on this statement, and I was simply trying to determine why this notice was in such widespread use on the web and whether it would be useful for us to provide it in connection with the database. Seeing how widespread this notice is on the web, I was very curious about its origin.
  
  Thanks,
  
  Julia
• August 26, 2005 @ 11:26amCarrie says:

  Mystery solved!
  
  Plus I learned about this fair use notice!

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