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Journalists, Fair Use and Free Speech
The Center’s latest report, Copyright, Free Speech, and the Public's Right to Know: How Journalists Think about Fair Use, conducted in conjunction with American University's Washington College of Law, funded by the McCormick Foundation, reveals the cost to journalistic mission of not understanding a crucial free speech right.
Localore Picks Feature Crowdsourced Docs, Collaborative Reporting, and Gaming for Good
Today, the Association of Independents in Radio (AIR) announced the winners of the Localore competition, a $2 million initiative designed to expand public radio and TV stations' capacity to innovate and reach new publics.Read more...
Fair Use Question Of The Month: What About Four Factor Checklists?
This month's fair use question comes from a librarian who is creating guidelines for faculty on how to use copyrighted material in their university's library on classroom Blackboard sites. This question is also featured in Reclaiming Fair Use.
Elisa Kreisinger's Pick for Fair Use Video of the Month: The Yes Men
The Yes Men employed fair use to provide a critique of economic and political leaders' public pronouncements (and their actions). As the 2012 World Economic Forum began in Davos Switzerland, these Yes Men remixes (created in 2010) provided a dissident variation on the forum’s new theme: The Great Transformation: Shaping New Models. Read more...
Changing More Than Change
Documentaries may not be changing change, but they're changing just about everything else.Read more...
Art Profs, Librarians, Curators Get Their Fair Use Code
The Visual Resources Association has released its own code of best practices in fair use.
Fair Use: From Monster in the Shadows to Leveler of the Playing Field
For Kelly Nyks, director of Split: A Divided America-- a documentary film about partisan divides in American society—learning about fair use made distribution possible.Read more...
Use Your Exemptions
Are you a teacher, a student, a maker, a DVD owner, an owner of a smartphone or an iPad? You may have something to say to the Copyright Office very soon.Read more...
Designing for Impact - Case Studies (Continued): State of Fear: The Truth about Terrorism
This week we are looking at the last case study from the Designing for Impact report by Barbara Abrash and Jessica Clark! We hope you all have learned something by far.Read more...
