As you might have read in my Permissions Culture in the UK post, I was bowled over by the lack of flexibility in fair dealing in the UK. Patricia Aufderheide of The Center for Social Media at American University reports from the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam that there actually has been a bit of progress:
The [...]
01 Dec
Posted by Agnes Varnum as Big Picture, Education
The Center for Social Media has announced the next incarnation of the Making Your Media Matter Conference. It will be held at American University in Washington DC on February 12-13, 2009. So far, social issue documentary veterans George Stoney and Gordon Quinn are scheduled for keynotes. Who should go? “Join filmmakers, distributors, outreach specialists and [...]
I just got back from Sheffield Doc/Fest and boy o boy, do I feel bad for UK filmmakers! The “clearance culture” as the folks at the Center for Social Media call it, is totally out of control. It is so bad that I at one point an Irish filmmaker told me that the UK has [...]
YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley delivered a speech at MIPCOM aimed at alleviating distributors’ fears over online distribution. It’s mostly not very interesting, however, the rights management portion caught my attention:
Hundreds of millions of people around the world were able to engage and experience the Olympics online, many of whom never had never had the opportunity [...]
As seems to be the norm rather than the exception these days over at The New York Times, they attempt to write a story on what is happening in our industry but fail to capture some of the most interesting aspects of the story, which would require actual research:
Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg [...]
It’s not too late to get in on this year’s University Film & Video Association Annual Conference in Colorado Springs! If you are a grad student or teaching film and video at the college level, this conference is for you. I delivered a paper a few years back, and the friendships and connections I made [...]
12 Jan
Posted by Pamela Cohn as Big Picture, Creative Process, Distribution, Education, Policy
The Making Your Media Matter ‘08 conference is slated for February 7 and 8 at the Katzen Arts Center at American University in Washington, DC. Keynote speakers, Byron Hurt and Sonya Childress will open the two day symposium. This will be my first time attending, so stay tuned for more on this in [...]
Via the Center for Social Media at American University, “When college kids make mashups of Hollywood movies, are they violating the law? Not necessarily, according to the latest study on copyright and creativity from the Center and American University’s Washington College of Law.
The study, Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video, by Center [...]
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