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News from the Future of Public Media -- Center for Social Media at American University
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Over the course of the next week, we are hosting a discussion on whether the clips posted below could be considered fair use of somebody else’s copyrighted material based on the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video. The first clip is posted below. Watch out for more in the next few days.
This clip was pulled from Kartemquin’s In The Family, a documentary film about one woman’s journey after learning she has the gene associated with breast cancer. Watch for audio clips and a CNN segment about Myriad Genetics. You may want to look at The Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use for a code that is more tailored to filmmakers, although the underlying arguments are the same:
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We will be covering some of the exceptions to the copyright legislation, in particular "fair dealing". The folks at Future of Public Media have an interesting discussion going and some very practical examples, which I find quite provocative.
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