“Fair Use” for legally using media is not black and white. To help sort out the fair use criteria, the University of Minnesota has created an online (or PDF) worksheet to help you determine the extent to which what you would like to do is protected by fair use.
Student talks about his RIAA lawsuit and the Free Culture Movement (video 3 of 3)
In the third video in this series, Zack talks about how the RIAA lawsuit got him involved with people who are examining the strict interpretation of copyright law, share-friendly licensing (like Creative Commons and open source licensing), remix culture, how digital natives use media. This video was found as part of the Berkman Center blog at Harvard Law.