I have a love/hate relationship with the copyright exceptions for libraries and researchers. I’m grateful there are exceptions but I’m just not sure it’s possible things could be *more* confusing.

Kudos to the Copyright Advisory Network (http://librarycopyright.net) for these easy-to-use tools to help libraries and others understand these confusing rules.

For librarians the Section 108 Spinner:
http://librarycopyright.net/108spinner/

For teachers the Exceptions for Instructors tool:
http://librarycopyright.net/etool/

For researches (and everyone) the Public Domain Slider and the Fair Use Evaluator:
http://librarycopyright.net/fairuse/
http://librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/

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