When looking at the concept of FAIR USE one of the questions we
need to answer is how much of a copyrighted work can we use
without violating that copyright. Like everything the answer is
never simple. Tom Jones, CG in his lecture “Honesty, Courtesy,
and Confidentiality: Ethics for Family Historians.” (available
on CD from JAMB Productions) suggests using the ”Rule of Three.”
If you use more that three words, put it in quotes. If you use
more than three paragraphs you need permission. This works well
for books and many scholarly articles. What happens, however, if
you are talking about a BLOG? You might have only three
paragraphs, putting them in quotes and reusing them is not
justified under the fair use concept. Universities generally
suggest a 10% rule. If you use more than 10% you should have
permission. This means 10% of each of the parts of a whole, so
using more than 10% of the whole, of a part, of a section, of a
chapter, of an article, etc. would violate the concept. This
works well in many cases, bu