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Open Video Conference: Highlights
Full Disclosure: I’m a political video remix artist and writer blogging at PoliticalRemixVideo.com. At this year’s Open Video Conference, I participated in the panel, Remix Theory and curated the video remix program which ran throughout the FIT venue. My participation in the conference began last year as a curator and panelist and I’m involved with the open video movement because of their continued support for remixers, Fair Use and online digital rights.
Report: Will Fair Use Survive? Free Expression in the Age of Copyright Control
The result of more than a year of research -- including many firsthand stories from artists, historians, Web bloggers, and others -- "Will Fair Use Survive?" documents how the rights to fair use and free expression are being threatened by an intellectual property system that is perilously out of balance.
The report includes six recommendations for change. Documentary filmmaker of "Hoop Dreams," Gordon Quinn, proclaims that the report "is part of a wider movement to educate people about fair use, and it's going to help us users organize and reassert the right to fair use."
