Announcing the Authors Alliance Guide to Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors

We are pleased to announce the release of our brand-new guide to Fair Use for Nonfiction Authors! The guide is designed to empower authors to exercise their right to use source materials to further their research and writing goals by helping them to make confident fair use decisions. This new guide is the latest addition to our growing library of resource books for authors, which includes educational guides for rights reversion and open access.

The guide will help nonfiction authors who want to do things like:

Include song lyrics in an academic paper discussing musical trends;
Quote from a novel to analyze the author’s use of metaphors in a work of literary criticism;
Incorporate a photograph in an article about the photographer’s use of light and shadow;
Use a chart in a scientific paper critiquing a researcher’s methodology and findings; or
Quote from unpublished letters in a memoir.

Guide Link | https://www.authorsalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/AuthorsAllianceFairUseNonfictionAuthors.pdf

Source | https://www.authorsalliance.org/