Research Guides: Legal Instruction Resources: Free and Low-Cost Course Materials for Legal Instruction

Best Practices in Fair Use for OER

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Open Educational Resources: A Guide for Authors, Adapters & Adopters of Openly Licensed Teaching and Learning Materials by Facilitators Meredith Jacob, Peter Jaszi, Prudence S. Adler & William Cross
Publication Date: American University Washington College of Law and Center for Media & Social Impact 2021

"This Code is a tool for educators, librarians, and authors to evaluate common professional scenarios in which fair use can enable them to incorporate inserts, including those protected by copyright, to create OER. It can provide groups working on OER projects with a shared framework for evaluating and understanding when and how to incorporate existing content to meet pedagogical needs."--p. 6

Textbooks for LAW

OER Textbooks

Creative Commons defines Open Educational Resources (OER) as teaching, learning, and research materials that are either (a) in the public domain or (b) licensed in a manner that provides everyone with free and perpetual permission to engage in the 5R activities– retaining, remixing, revising, reusing and redistributing the resources.