Fair use is the legal way to use copyrighted work in order to help your own purpose. There are many types of ways that you can use copyrighted work, fairly. For example; parodies, scholarship & research, criticism and news-reporting and ART. But in the end, it all comes down to four basic factors; The Purpose & Character of Use, The Nature of the Copyrighted Work, The Amount & Substantiality and The Effect on the Market. The court takes these four factors into serious consideration so it's better if you keep in mind, the four factors, as you use copyrighted work instead of relying on types of ways that you can use copyrighted work.
This affects Graphic Design because it affects Art. For instance, if I see a delta symbol in one of my textbooks and decide to manipulate the design to use it as a part of a greater design and changed it's meaning by, maybe adding an alpha and omega; then I have changed it's purpose and thus it is fair use of copyrighted material. Also we don't want people to steal our art, our designs (graphic or not) and Copyright laws are supposed to prevent that from happening but we still get inspiration from other works of art and thus we need to know the boundary of the amount/substance we can use from the copyrighted work.
This affects Graphic Design because it affects Art. For instance, if I see a delta symbol in one of my textbooks and decide to manipulate the design to use it as a part of a greater design and changed it's meaning by, maybe adding an alpha and omega; then I have changed it's purpose and thus it is fair use of copyrighted material. Also we don't want people to steal our art, our designs (graphic or not) and Copyright laws are supposed to prevent that from happening but we still get inspiration from other works of art and thus we need to know the boundary of the amount/substance we can use from the copyrighted work.
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