Fair Use

Last week, Electronic Frontier Foundation featured EFF Board Chairman Brad Templeton's remix of the popular meme "the bunker scene" from the 2004 film Downfall. This clip has been remixed in various formats, but now (thanks to Brad) we've got a version that not only employs Fair Use but explains Fair Use. Read EFF's article titled When Fair Use Is Fairly Difficult for more details on the process of creating this clip.

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As key author on the Code of Best Practices in Sustainable Filmmaking, Larry Engel will be spending the summer promoting the Code at upcoming festivals and conferences this summer and fall. Andrew Buchanan, his co-author of the Code of Best Practices in Sustainable Filmmaking, will "attend" where possible via Skype. Read more...

At the annual meeting of the International Communication Association a group of us formed a committee to create a Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Communication Scholarship. Chris Boulton, a grad student at University of Massachusetts-Amherst, kicked it off with a story of not being permitted to file his M.A. thesis until he took out all copyrighted material. The problem was that the copyrighted material—pictures of children’s fashion advertisements—were the thesis’s core data. Read more...

Last summer the release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video nearly crashed our servers with people downloading the document. Read more...