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• Fair Use, Free Speech and Contract Clearance
• Fair Use, Licensing, and Intellectual Property Rights
• Fair Use at Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference
• WIFV Wednesday One: Getting the Right Rights
• Taking the Law Into Your Own Hands
• Clearance, Copyright and Fair Use for Filmmakers with Michael C. Donaldson
• Stories Untold
• Footage from the ‘Fair Use and Free Speech’ Launch
• Examples of Successful Fair Use in Documentary Film
• Category 1: Commenting Critically on Media
• Outfoxed
• George Stoney
• Panel: Copyright, the Constitution, and the Crisis in Historical Documentary Film
• Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
• “Docu makers rallying for fair use of fair use”
• The Free Expression Policy Project
• The Future of Music Coalition
• Category 2: Sampling popular culture to portray societal conditions
• Killing Us Softly
• Behind the Screens
• Category 3: Incorporating incidental sounds and images in documentary footage
• Category 4: Employing archival material in historical or biographical sequences
• Why America Hates the Press
• Refrigerator Mothers
• Women’s Voices: The Gender Gap
• The Persuaders
• Merchants of Cool
• Game Over
• Cracking the Code of Life
• Money for Nothing
• Who Owns the Past?
• The New Americans
• 5 Girls
• Karl Rove - The Architect
• Giuliani Time
• Citizen King
• Jack Walsh
• Michael Donaldson
• Sandra Ruch
• Tamara Gould
• “Yes, You Can!”—Where You Don’t Even Need ‘Fair Use’
• Fair Use: An Essential Feature of Copyright
• How to Find Out What is in the Public Domain
• Fair Use at Upcoming Conferences
• “Comedies of Fair Use”
• Fair Use at Nashville Film Festival
• Fair Use Featured at CINE Awards
• Public Media and the Smithsonian Controversy
• Reinventing the Gatekeeper
• Denver’s Digital IP Summit
• Center Director Submits Testimony on Smithsonian/Showtime Controversy
• Testimony on the Smithsonian Controversy to the House Committee on House Administration 5.25.06
• IFC Puts Fair Use Guidelines to Work, Wins Big
• Fair Use and Free Speech
• Repurposing and Rights: A Non-Profit Summit
• Untold Stories: Creative Consequences of the Rights Clearance Culture
• beyond_beats
• God of a Second Chance
• Money for Nothing
• Untold Stories Interview Transcript
• Copyright Society - Highlights from June 11-13, 2006 Annual Meeting
• Check out the Center’s Fair Use Toolkit DVD
• Dallas Video Festival: Copyright & Fair Use Workshop
• 9th United Nations Association Film Festival
• UFVA and Center for Social Media Fair Use Contest Winners
• Filmmaker Conference Panel on Fair Use
• government presents y
• For Whom Pop Culture Rocks
• Critical Media
• “Fair Use Revisited” with The Honorable Alex Kozinski
• Thoughts on Fair Use at The Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue, Paris June 2006, by Gordon Quinn
• Check out the Center’s latest Fair Use tools - Learning from Refrigerator Mothers
• Expanding User Rights For Documentary Filmmakers
• Refrigerator Mothers
• Freeing the Data in London
• The Good, The Bad and the Confusing: User-Generated Video Creators on Copyright
• Make sense of Fair Use - the good, the bad and the confusing!
• Another Insurer for Fair Use
• What’s really fair when you’re making a mashup or a remix?
• Unauthorized: The Copyright Conundrum in Participatory Video
• Unauthorized: The Copyright Conundrum in Participatory Video
• Read the Transcript of the Ask The Experts Online Q&A on Fair Use!
• Ask the Experts! Free advice on Fair Use - Online Dialogue
• More from MIT5: Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons
• How Documentary Filmmakers Overcame their Fear of Quoting and Learned to Employ Fair Use
• Universities in the Digital Age at the Berkman Conference - Issues of Copyright
• Your Fair Use Questions Answered - Demystifying Fair Use
• Copyright, Fair Use and Motion Pictures
• Think you don’t need Fair Use? Guess again!
• New Copyright and Fair Use Project Announced!
• Major insurers all accept Fair Use!
• Confused about copyright? You’re not alone. Please Join Us on Sept. 25 for a Special Event!
• Fair Use and the Numbers
• Media Literacy Education constrained by misunderstandings of Fair Use - Find out how!
• The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy - the Center’s new report explains how.
• Media literacy advocates gather to discuss fair use in the classroom - read about it here!
• Defend your rights to use digital media! Digital Freedom Campaign - FREE CONCERT on Oct. 24
• Electronic Frontier Foundation Guidelines bring common sense to online video content protection
• Center for Social Media to Co-Release New Report: Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy, Sept. 25
• American University Launches Copyright and Fair Use in Participatory Media Project
• Recut, Reframe, Recycle
• New Study Shows Remixes Could Be Quoting Copyrighted Material Legally
• Online Video and Copyright in Vegas
• Online Video and Copyright in Vegas
• Fair Use Goes International
• Fair Use Question on Using Clips in Public Radio

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