Copyright and Fair Use

The images in this collection are extracted from documents found in the Opioid Industry Documents Archive, a collaborative undertaking of the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University. 

Copyright in some images belongs to the same rightsholder as the document itself – generally, the company that employed the document’s creator. But in cases where an image was not created by the employee but instead by someone outside the company (for example, an image of a magazine cover included in a company document), the owner of the copyright in the image will be different from the owner of the copyright in the document. In many cases, it may be difficult to know who owns the copyright in the image.

Ultimately, you are responsible for determining whether you need permission to make use of a work. The fair use doctrine (as codified in Section 107 of U.S. copyright law) recognizes that there are uses that do not infringe on the rights of copyright holders, meaning that certain uses can be made without permission from the copyright owner.

If you hold copyright to an image or images in this collection and have concerns about our inclusion of this material, please contact us.