June 2, 2008Newsletter

June will be another busy month for the Center. Register now for the 2008 Beyond Broadcast conference - space is going fast! Don't miss the chance to meet and learn from cutting-edge public media leaders. See below for details on the Center's upcoming events at this year's SILVERDOCS Film Festival and Conference, read our report from the recent ICA conference in Montreal, and be sure to take a look at our newly designed Public Media FAQ. Stay tuned for details on the launch of the highly anticipated Code of Best Practices in Fair Use in Online Video, which builds on our findings from our Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User- Generated Video report. See you at Beyond Broadcast and SILVERDOCS!

Register Now! - Beyond Broadcast 2008
WHEN: June 17
Read all about it below, in "The Future of Public Media" section, and visit the conference website for more information and registration, as well as the special $50 discount on SILVERDOCS registration for all Beyond Broadcast attendees!

Register now!

Beyond Broadcast 2008 - Join us in Charting the Future of Public Media
What are the boundaries of 21st- century public media? Register for Beyond Broadcast 2008: Mapping Public Media to explore new territories and technologies for media that inform and mobilize publics.

As platforms become increasingly mobile and personalized, how will publics communicate around shared issues? Join us for panels, demos, and conversations with experts and leaders in the field, including:

• Katrin Verclas, Co- Founder and Editor, Mobil eActive
• Paula Le Dieu, Director of Open Media, Magic Lantern Productions
• Persephone Miel, Fellow, Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School
• Stamen Design-the co- creators of Digg Labs

and many more!

Register now - space is going fast!
Can't join us in DC? Join the Beyond Broadcast social network: http://beyondbroadcast.ning.com/

2008 National Conference for Media Reform - Minneapolis, June 6-8th
The NCMR is now in its fourth year, and the 2008 conference promises to be the biggest and best one yet, bringing together thousands of activists, students, scholars, policymakers, journalists, celebrities, elected officials, artists and citizens from across the country and around the world.

Center staffers Jessica Clark and Alison Hanold will participate in two panels at the conference:

• June 7: Copyright Wars: Will Filtering Censor Free Speech and Kill Net Neutrality?, with Alison Hanold
• June 8: New Directions in Public Media, with Jessica Clark

Special guests at the 2008 NCMR will include legendary journalists Bill Moyers of PBS and Dan Rather, former anchor of CBS News; Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, co-hosts of Democracy Now!; and many more! Register online today at www.freepress.net/conference or call us at 877- 888-1533.

Center Events at 2008 SILVERDOCS Film Festival and Conference
Special Discount to all Beyond Broadcast participants: $50 discount at the SILVERDOCS Documentary Film Festival. Just use the AFI membership code.
Look for Center Director Pat Aufderheide at this year's SILVERDOCS Conference in three sessions that examine crucial issues in the fields of public media and documentary film. Visit our website for full details:

• June 18: Panel disucssion - Does Public TV Have a Future?
• June 19:: Panel Discussion - The Legal 411 on Film and Media in the Classroom
• June 19: Silver Session & Book Signing - Truth, Justice & Documentary Ethics

Visions of the New News
The latest in a series that highlights examples of media maps.
Future of Public Media Project Director Jessica Clark looks at examples of different efforts to visualize new relationships between news makers and consumers, reporters and sources, community builders and members, and more. Be sure to watch our blog< /a> for examples of how these new techniques are bringing together audiences and communities across the public media landscape.

CSM at ICA: Remapping Public Media Research
Read Future of Public Media Project Director Jessica Clark's report on the Center's Remapping Public Media panel at this year's International Communication Association meeting. As new forms of media emerge, how will researchers find fresh theories and approaches to make sense of them? Read more>>

Innovation in Focus - Public Interactive's Public Action
Public Interactive's new online community engagement tool, Public Action, is making it easier than ever for public broadcasting stations and producers to integrate participatory platforms on their own websites to engage audiences. As the role of audiences increasingly shifts from media consumer to media curator, tools like Public Action will play a pivotal role in fostering a robust public media environment that includes both quality content and open dialogue. Like the Center, Public Interactive is part of the Ford Foundation Future of Public Media Initiative, a group of nonprofit organizations with a common goal to push forward into the future of public media. Read more>>

Public Media Thrives Internationally
Read Center Director Pat Aufderheide's blog posts on three success stories of public media in a global community. Be sure to watch our Future of Public Media blog for the latest news on the projects that exemplify the best in public media.

Stay updated on the latest news in public media - subscribe to our RSS feed! This month we've discussed public media maps, user-generated video and much more!

YouTomb draws attention to YouTube copyright takedowns
In an effort to explore the nature of fair use violations on the web, MIT Free Culture, a student organization at MIT, has created YouTomb, a website the regularly scans YouTube and posts information about clips that are taken down due to "copyright infringement." Read More

Fair Use FAQ Featured Question of the Month - Using Clips in Public Radio
Want your questions on Fair Use answered? Someone else may have already asked. Check out the new Fair Use FAQ, where our most frequently asked questions find answers. This month's featured question: using media clips in public radio..

What is Remix Culture? Show us!
TotalRecut.com is hosting a Video Remix Challenge over the next two months and is asking participants to create a short video using Public Domain and Creative Commons work to answer the question: 'What is Remix Culture? Center Director Pat Aufderheide will be acting as a judge in in the contest, along with other media and fair use experts. Entries will be accepted from May 1 until June 2, 2008. Visit http://www.totalrecut.com/contest1.php for more details.

AU Alum Wins Student Academy Award
The AU community congratulates MFA Graduate Laura Waters Hinson for winning a Student Academy Award for her film, As We Forgive, the story of two Rwandan women coming face-to-face with the men who slaughtered their families during the 1994 genocide. The film is a telling example of high quality media for public knowledge and action.

P.O.V. Announces Start of New Season - June 24, 2008
The 21st season of P.O.V. will feature 15 new films, from June 24 - December 15, starting with Katrina Browne's Traces of the Trade, in honor of the Bicentennial of the abolition of the US slave trade. Other films will include Election Day, Critical Condition and The Ballad of Esequiel Hernandez. Visit www.pbs.org/pov to learn more about these films and to view the entire line-up.

Kartemquin's In the Family at SILVERDOCS
Kartemquin's latest doc, In the Family is in the SILVERDOCS US Feature Competition & is up for the inaugural Writers Guild Award recognizing writing in documentary. Gordon Quinn, Kartemquin founder, is a Media Fellow of the Center.
SILVERDOCS Screenings of In the Family:

• Wednesday, June 18 at 2:15 PM followed by a panel discussion. Moderated by Simon Kilmurry of P.O.V.
• Saturday, June 21 at 2:15 PM followed by a Q&A with filmmaker Joanna Rudnick and film subject Luis Pedraza
• Additional Screenings:
  Thursday, July 10th, 6:00- 8:30 PM
  Back-to-back sneak previews, Q&A with Joanna Rudnick will follow each screening.
  Where: E St Cinema 555 11th Street NW Washington, DC 20004. This event is free to the public. Register at www.geneticalliance.org/inthefamily.

New Deadlines for Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program - July 7, 2008 & February 5, 2009
Each year, the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program awards up to $1.5 million in grants to support documentary films focused on contemporary social issues. You may submit anytime BEFORE the deadline. Awards will be announced in November for the July deadline and in June for the February deadline. For the rest of the story or to apply online, visit: www.sundance.org/documentary or www.sundance.org/DocSource .

Special discounts available at the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum
June 23-24, 2008, Frederick P. Rose Hall, New York City
Technology and the Internet are changing politics and democracy. At the bipartisan 2008 Personal Democracy Forum, the nation's top political professionals, technologists, and non-profit executives will gather to discuss the future of democracy and advocacy in our networked world. Discover how social technology can be harnessed to advance issues and ideas, and learn about the coming of "Wiki Government." Learn more and register now at www.personaldemocracy.com/conference< /a>. Contact conference@personaldemocracy.com for special discounts available for nonprofits, group purchases and students.