Last month CAA published an Issues Report titled Copyright, Permissions and Fair Use among Visual Artists and the Academic
and Museum Visual Arts Communities. The report—available for free download on CAA’s website—reveals a situation in which uncertainty about copyright law and the availability of fair use, particularly in the digital era, has made many practitioners risk-averse, too often abandoning or distorting projects due to real or perceived challenges in using copyrighted materials. These findings are part of an ongoing Fair Use Initiative that will conclude with the development of a code of best practices related to the use of copyrighted materials.

You can also go to their YouTube page to watch a discussion about CAA’s Fair Use Initiative that took place earlier this month at the 2014 Annual Conference in Chicago.