Best Practices for Fair Use in Online Video

Submitted by cima on Sun, 2008-10-05 18:27.

Best ways to fairly use copyrighted material in online video.

"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 (centerforsocialmedia.org/recut) 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 (centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse). "

July 7, 2008

Center for Social Media

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video/

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