Fair Use Videos
UFVA and CSM Fair Use and Free Speech Contest Winner!
CRITICAL MEDIA DVD
This DVD showcases a class project, coordinated by Bettina Fabos, in which students applied journalistic research, analytical critical skills, video production and graphic design to critique popular culture. The students quoted popular films,
In AU Professor Larry Engel's Advanced Documentary Technique class, ten grad students used the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video to try to create "fair use" mashup videos. Take a look at the videos
Filmmakers have been successfully employing fair use, even before the Statement of Best Practices clarified their common understandings. Here are some examples of uncontested choices for fair use. They are organized here according to the principles that filmmakers articulated in the Statement, in the categories used in the Statement. These
What does the legal record tell us about fair use in documentaries? Not very much, because there have been so few cases. Between 1996 and 2007, there were only nine cases, and only five plaintiffs in total, since two plaintiffs each brought three of the cases. None of the plaintiffs have been motion picture studios or large archives. In most
A collection of videos that correctly employ the fair use principles of the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, for use in exercises and
A collection of videos that correctly employ the fair use principles of the Code of Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video, for use in exercises and discussions about fair use. Can you
On November 18, 2005, members representing independent filmmaker professional organizations, media arts organizations, filmmakers and legal scholars gathered at American University to release the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use.
The Center for Social Media teamed up with MIT's New Media Literacy project to create three video exemplars with six American University School of Communication students. At the Center, the project was co-lead by SOC's Maggie Burnette Stogner and CAS's Celine-Marie Pascale. These exemplars are intended to help educators explore the skills
Here are examples of choices for fair use or purchasing rights in Kartemquin Films' Refrigerator Mothers.
UFVA and The CSM are pleased to announce the winners of the Fair Use Contest. The jury celebrates these films as demonstrating a successful good-faith effort to employ fair use. We were pleased that their makers evidently learned from the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement. We were delighted to note that in some cases, they have boldly and
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Videos
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Check out our newest video, "Fair Use Is A Right," created by AU Alum Kristian Perry and featuring...
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This is a clip from Williams Cole's documentary Giuliani Time.
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This is a clip from the American Experience documentary Citizen King, by Orlando Bagwell.