Copyright and Fair Use

Fair Use Question of the Month: Displaying Corporate Ads and Logos in Documentary

Posted by Bryan Bello on June 10, 2013

Vegetables In this month's fair use question, a documentary filmmaker expresses her concerns about displaying advertisements and logos from a grocery store on screen.

Dear CSM:

I'm making a documentary on an organic grocery store in my community that is actually "far-from-green." I hope to include images of their newspaper ads, focusing on disputable claims. I might have to show the whole ad. Is that a problem? Read more...

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Journalists’ Fair Use Principles Fight Self-censorship

Posted by Angelica Das on June 07, 2013

It's official! The Set of Principles in Fair Use for Journalism has launched with Center director Pat Aufderheide's TEDx talk at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Fla. You can follow the conversation on the Center's Twitter feed or with hashtags #fairuse and #journalism.

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War on Water

Marymount Manhattan College students Billy Shields and Stuart Kiczek re-purpose old copyright black-and-white footage to illustrate a more modern point about how consumers can cut down on expenses by filtering their own tap water at home instead of purchasing bottled water. They use only enough of the third party images as necessary in order to give the rest of the footage the feel of a much older film.

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Remix Culture: Fair Use is Your Friend

A video that explains why the Code for Fair Use in Online Video got created, and how the Code can help you create online videos that employ fair use of copyrighted material.

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Remix Culture

When is it fair and legal to use other people's copyrighted work to make your own? What's the line between infringement and fair use?

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