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The Center for Social Media
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use
This website provides Codes of Best Practice for Fair Use for several areas to help with making decisions about use of copyrighted materials under the Fair Use exemption.  There are also teaching tools and videos that help address fair use practices.

The following links and resources provided by Fritz Dolak, Copyright and Intellectual Property Manager of the Ball State University Copyright Office.

Ball State University Copyright Pages of Possible Interest:

• Copyright for Distance Educators:
  http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/distanceed/faculty/
• Copyright for Librarians
  http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/librarians/
• Copyright & Intellectual Property Office:
  http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/
• Copyright for Students:
  http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/students/

Columbia University Copyright Pages of Possible Interest:

• Columbia University Copyright Advisory Office
  http://copyright.columbia.edu/
• Columbia University Libraries Copyright Advisory Office Fair Use Checklist
  http://copyright.columbia.edu/fair-use-checklist.html

Royalty Free Sites:

• Federal Resources for Educational Excellence - Teaching and Learning Resources from Federal Agencies
  http://free.ed.gov/
• The Library of Congress - American Memory Project
  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
• Freefoto.com is the largest, most comprehensive collection of the photographs on the Internet
  http://www.freefoto.com/
• Ball State University - Selective Sites for Royalty Free Graphics, Sounds, Animated gifs, Videos & Other Free Stuff
  http://www.bsu.edu/library/collections/copyright/royaltyfree
• Royalty Free Music Collection for multi-media projects
  http://www.royaltyfreemusic.com/