This guide provides legal information but does not constitute legal advice.
Harvard Business Review articles?
YouTube videos?
Netflix?
Workbooks?
Poetry?
Student work?
The guidelines on this page have been created by the Simmons University Library for use by the Simmons Community and are intended to provide responses to Frequently Asked Questions in applying U.S. copyright law. As with any Best Practices this information is subject to interpretation and is not legal advice.
From a single issue of an electronic journal held by the Library
You may provide links to any number of articles in your learning management system (LMS).
From a single issue of a print or electronic journal NOT held by the Library
You may provide a PDF of one article in your LMS for one semester. For additional articles for the first semester, and for all articles in subsequent semesters, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
Films
You may show a film in any format in your F2F classroom or place a DVD on reserve for your F2F students.
You may provide a link to films included in streaming services such as Kanopy, in your LMS.
For your online/distance classroom, you must link to a streaming alternative from a service such as Kanopy, in your LMS, or require your students to rent or purchase their own copy of the material.
If you wish to show a film outside the classroom, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder or use a streaming version that is licensed for public performance.
Photographs or other images
You may provide access to up to five images by a single artist in your LMS.
You may provide access to up to 15 images (or 10%, whichever is less) of the images from a published collective work or an anthology in your LMS.
If you wish to provide access to more than five images by a single artist from a collective work in your LMS, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
If you wish to provide access to more than 15 images (or 10%, whichever is less) from multiple artists in a collective work in your LMS, you should obtain permission from the copyright holder.
The ARTstor database contains a list of Permitted and Prohibited Uses which matches fair use guidelines and is generally friendly to classroom instruction and educational activities.