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News from the Future of Public Media
Pubcasters and community engagement
Whether you’re in public broadcasting or not, it’s worth it to take a look at the just-posted remarks of National Center for Outreach director Maria Alvarez Stroud on trends in community engagement (made at the Public Radio Development and Marketing Conference), are fascinating. She takes note of several hot trends, including corporate social responsibility, and says, “One of public broadcasting’s greatest assets is our foundation of rich and varied relationships with citizens. While corporations may be seizing community engagement as… more
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New CSM field report: How well did “Why Democracy?” collaboration work?
In 2008, the Center for Social Media is producing a series of field reports analyzing innovative public media projects. This third installment in the series… more
Fair Use Question of the Month: Using Quotations
QUESTION Dear CSM: We are currently putting together our first documentary. We have been very careful to get releases for interviews we have conducted and… more
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Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.
This is a guide to current acceptable practices, drawing on the actual activities of creators, as discussed among other places in the study Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video and backed by the judgment of a national panel of experts. It also draws, by way of analogy, upon the professional judgment and experience of documentary filmmakers, whose own code of best practices has been recognized throughout the film and television businesses.
UFVA Fair Use & Free Speech Contest - $500 for best fair use!
UFVA is hosting a contest for the best short documentaries employing fair use, made by higher education students and faculty.
Check out this fair use example from YouTube:
Events
Inside the Local News: A PBS Series
On October 17, executive producer Calvin Skaggs and producer Ali Pomeroy showed excerpts from their five-part PBS series "Local News." An issue that series raised included the hard choices broadcasters faced after a child's murder, during a trial that sparked racial conflict, and after school shootings. Calvin Skaggs has produced more than two dozen films, including programs for American Playhouse,… more