The Fair Use Guidelines for Educational Multimedia provide for specific limits on the amount of copyrighted works that may be used.

  • For motion media -(e.g., video clips) up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is less.
  • For text- up to 10% or 1000 words, whichever less.
  • For poems -
    • up to 250 words.
    • Three poem limit per poet
    • Five poem limit by different poets from an anthology.
  • For music - up to 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is less.
  • For photos and images
    • Up to 5 works from one author.
    • Up to 10% or 15 works, whichever is less, from a collection.
  • Database information-- up to 10% or 2,500 fields or cell entries, whichever is less.

See Harper