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Facebook & Social Journalism: Report, Distribute, and Engage

The average Facebook user spends 25 minutes per day on Facebook and every day, 100 million photos are uploaded to the site. How can journalists tap into this social network of engaged consumers and encourage users not only to read their stories, but to help distribute them? What if users could not only interact with the material, but with the reporters themselves?Read more...

Documenting Death With Dignity: New Film Follows Personal Stories Behind Oregon's Law

I had the great pleasure of interviewing filmmaker Peter Richardson about his newest film, How To Die In Oregon, for the International Documentary Association's website.  They have generously agreed to let us republish the interview here.  Enjoy!

 

 

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Fair Use Question of the Month: I Have Permission From The Performers, But What About The Music Rights?

In this month's fair use question, a middle school teacher wants to upload video of an orchestra rehearsing copyrighted music but is concerned with licensing rights.

 

 

 

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Fair Use Question of the Month: My Video Disappeared from YouTube...Now What?

In this month's fair use question, an online video creator wants to know what he can do after his video is taken down from YouTube.

 

 

 

 

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"To have social change, we need to be able to use examples from what we want to change": Play Again & Fair Use

The documentary Play Again is an important new award-winning documentary about the consequences of a childhood removed from nature.  I spoke with filmmaker and co-founder of Ground Productions Tonje Schei about the film and about how the Read more...