Katie Bieze's Posts

Dear Center for Social Media,

I'm a newbie high school English teacher, and one of my assignments this year will be for students to make remakes or remixes of Shakespeare plays. I showed our principal some of your work--the Documentary Filmmakers Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video, and the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. She's approved the assignment, so thanks! Now I'd like to do a quick overview of fair use for my students at the beginning of the semester. What's the best way to explain what they can and can't do, in terms of copyright, for this assignment?  Read more...

I had the great pleasure of interviewing filmmaker Linda Goldstein Knowlton about her film, Somewhere Between for Documentary Magazine. The magazine has generously agreed to let us republish the article here.Read more...

When Turkish filmmaker Nefin Dinc was a graduate student in Great Britain, she noticed that while her Greek friends and Turkish friends "liked each other a lot," they also repeated similar ideas about the other that favored their own country: "the Turkish side would say that the Greeks had 'Megali Idea', which means they want to expand and get Turkish lands still, and the Greeks would say that Turkey would attack Greece if she had the chance." Dinc realized that the basis for many Read more...

The Center for Social Media is proud to be one of the sponsors of POV's Premiere Party initiative!Read more...

This month's fair use question comes from an employee in the IT department at  a university library who is looking to take advantage of fair use in order to fulfill a professor's request.

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