Fair Use Guidelines

What is fair use? Though not numerically defined, fair use has legally been grounds for reproducing small amounts of copyrighted work without the need to request the rights holder's permission. The small amount of text must always be attributed to the source; use is never fair if the source is not noted.

Does Heart.Ink Press, LLC, have a fair use policy for quotations? Yes. Please note that though we include quantitative guidelines, context is more significant than word count. Please read the following guidelines carefully. They are similar to those of other academic publishing houses and are as follows:

1. Types of use considered fair: quotations of Heart.Ink Press, LLC, material within your text (print, electronic media, sermon, etc.) for the purposes of criticism, commentary, definition, comparison, or illustration of your argument.
2. Guidelines: Use must comply with all of the following guidelines.
   •  No more than 5,000 words, in total, from one Heart.Ink Press, LLC, volume may be reproduced without permission.
   •  No more than 5% of the source work may be reproduced and no complete poems, children's books, or songs may be reproduced without permission.
   •  No more than 300 consecutive words may be reproduced without permission.
   •  Heart.Ink Press, LLC, material may not make up more than 5% of the new work.

•  Ellipses (...) may not be used in ways that alter the ideas of the original work.
•  Heart.Ink Press, LLC, material must be properly cited in a manner that conforms to a scholarly style.
3. Works not covered by fair use:
   •  Reproduction of Heart.Ink Press, LLC, material in an anthology, devotional volume, course reader, website, electronic database, or musical work or adaptation is not permitted without permission.
   •  Reproduction of Heart.Ink Press, LLC, material in a "text box," or epigraph, where the text stands alone rather than being incorporated into the discussion by the author is not permitted without requesting permission.
   •  Reproduction in which there is no suitable bibliographic citation is not permitted.
   •  Reproduction of charts, maps, illustrations, photographs, or cover images is not permitted without requesting permission.

Must churches ask permission in situations where use is not considered fair? In addition to the material considered fair (above), churches may reproduce stand-alone quotations in bulletins or on documents to be shown on a screen (such as PowerPoint or overhead projectors) without asking permission provided that the source is fully documented. All other uses require that permission be requested.