Join the MIT Libraries for Fair Use Week at this hands-on workshop to learn about your legal rights to reuse, parody, and build on pre-existing copyrighted materials.  Learn about appropriation artists who have been sued, and how to NOT be sued for your own projects.  Participants will learn to make a book-binding structure to create their own art book or zine using found materials, and will come away with a work which IS a fair use, and an understanding of HOW to utilize their fair use rights in their creative projects.  

Fair use is the part of copyright law which lets you - without asking permission or paying a fee - use pre-existing materials for your own creative ends.  Fair use is essential for free speech, and you rely on it every day, but it is often misunderstood.  Come to this workshop to learn how to assess fair use and know your rights!

Registration is limited.  We will provide materials, but please feel free to also bring materials you would like to turn into art!

Note: Participants should meet at the Maihaugen Gallery (14N-130) to be escorted to the Wunsch Conservation Lab (14-0513).