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Fiords, Rhubarb Juice and Copyright
Documentary filmmakers in Scandinavia joined scholars and lawyers to discuss the “clearance culture”—the custom of paying for all uses of copyrighted material in films— in Bergen, Norway on November 18. I got to keynote the event, which was thrilling, but even better was seeing the reach of the Center’s copyright scholarship. At a conference more than a year ago, Professor Leif Ove Larsen, a film history scholar and student of public sphere theory, learned of the research that Center director Pat Aufderheide and WCL legal scholar Peter Jaszi had done on the … more
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The Internet, Free Expression and Authoritarianism
Earlier this week at Georgetown University’s Mortara Center, I participated in a conference on issues of authoritarianism and the Internet. Headlining was … more
Online games address sustainability, civic engagement and community building
As we’ve noted before, games can be a great way to educate, inform and inspire groups of people to coalesce around particular issues. In the past, we’ve … more
FCC comments by CSM fellow reveal how public media can spur broadband adoption
This week, Center for Social Media Fellow Ellen Goodman—a professor at Rutgers University School of Law in Camden—submitted the attached response to a … more
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for OpenCourseWare
This document is a code of best practices designed to help those preparing OpenCourseWare (OCW) to interpret and apply fair use under United States copyright law.