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Best Practices in Copyright and Fair Use for User Generated Content prepared by American University's Center for Social Media and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at AU's Washington College of Law recommends approaches that " allow users to make remixes, mashups, and other common online genres with the knowledge that they are staying within copyright law."
http://www.wcl.american.edu/pijip_static/documents/Documentarybestpractices.pdf?rd=1
The Documentary Filmmakers Statement on Best Practices in Fair Use was developed by the Association of Independent Video and Filmakers, the Independent Feature Project, the International Documentary Association, the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, and Women in Film and Video (Washington, D.C., chapter) in consultation with the American University Center for Social Media and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at AU's Washington College of Law.
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/files/pdf/Media_literacy_txt.pdf
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education is another collaboration between the Center for Social Media and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property at American University, this time joined by the The Media Education Lab at Temple University. It is intended to help educators who use media in their teaching to interpret fair use.
http://www.danceheritage.org/fairuse/
The Dance Heritage Coalition has developed a Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use of Dance-Related Materials : Recommendations for Librarians, Archivists, Curators, and other Collections Staff. "This statement of best practices in fair use clarifies what librarians, archivists, curators, and others working with dance'related materials currently regard as a reasonable application of the Copyright Act's fair use doctrine, where the use of copyrighted materials is essential to significant cultural missions and institutional goals."
http://www.archivists.org/standards/OWBP-V4.pdf
The Society of American Archivists released Orphan Works: Statement of Best Practices as a guide for those wanting to make use of a work which would require copyright permission and the copyright owner cannot be identified or located. It includes an appropriately complex flow chart to help work your way through the process.