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Intellectual Property: Copyright, Trademark, Patents, and Fair Use

This guide provides access to resources and tools relating to copyright and trademark resources

Transformative Use

Transformative Use

If your use of a copyrighted work is transformative then it's probably fair use.  Transformative means that something new has been created rather than just a copy, Scholarly critique and parody are common forms of "transformative use."

Stanford has a great page that explains this more fully.