Viacom recognizes that the "fair use" doctrine may permit some use of limited amounts of copyrighted material for specific purposes such as criticism, commentary, teaching or parody. You may learn more about some of the factors that apply in making a fair use determination at the following link on the Copyright Office website:

http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html

There are no specific rules to determine whether a particular use is fair use. Although our policy is not to take down material that we believe is a good faith fair use of our content, we cannot give you legal advice on this subject and we may enforce our rights if we disagree with a claim of fair use. Regardless of the law of fair use, we have not generally challenged users of Viacom copyrighted material where the use or copy is occasional and is a creative, newsworthy or transformative use of a limited excerpt for non commercial purposes. There is no need to determine whether a proposed use of our content is fair use if you are accessing content on Viacom’s own websites such as mtv.com, iFilm.com, comedycentral.com, nickelodeon.com, paramount.com or BET.com and are making proper use of the tools available on those sites which enable various functions, including, in some cases, uploading and embedding.