This month's Fair Use Question features a discussion about the difference between parody and satire. You can find this question and more in professors Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi's new book, Reclaiming Fair Use!
I had the great pleasure of interviewing filmmaker Jim Whitaker about his newest film, Rebirth,for the online edition of Documentary magazine. They have generously agreed to let us republish the article here. Enjoy! Read more...
After the “Fair Use: In the Classroom, the Library and the Field” panel at UFVA, we were joined by a group of professors for a Fair Use Working Group lunch to discuss current issues with professors who are not only trying to encourage fair use in their students' work but practicing fair use themselves in their teaching. From the discussion, we have a lot of ideas for new resources to add to the fair use section of the Center for Social Media’s website.Read more...
For this month's fair use question, a teacher working on the syllabus for an upcoming film production course is looking for tools to help him teach fair use more confidently to his students.
In April, Public Knowledge noticed that YouTube's new Copyright School video didn't adequately cover fair use. They issued a challenge to the video remix community asking them to create their own response videos explaining how fair use can help video remixers legally use copyright material in their work!Read more...