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 [...]
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 [...]
An interesting article over at CNET for those of us interested in fair use, For YouTube videos, a ‘fair use’ boost.
Copyright owners, such as NBC Universal, Warner Bros., and Viacom, were put on notice Wednesday when U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel ruled that they must not order video be removed from Web sites indiscriminately. Before [...]
In case you haven’t discovered it yet, Warren Cohen started up a nice blog about music docs, Docs That Rock. Since his day job is over at VH1’s Rock Docs, he is a great person to keep us informed on the music doc scene. He has hit the nail on the head as to why [...]
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 [...]
I’m a bit late in posting about a new, very important resource. I wanted to review the document before posting. Based on the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, The Center for Social Media at American University has continued to help content creators identify and express what fair use means in creating [...]
My dear filmmaker friends of little faith, you are always asking for test cases of fair use in documentary, and here you have one. Please take note:
John Lennon’s sons and widow, Yoko Ono, on Monday lost a battle to block the use of the song “Imagine” in the documentary “Expelled: No Intelligence [...]
I was on my way home from work the other day when I heard that Yoko Ono and her sons are suing the producers of the “intelligent design” film Expelled over their unlicensed use of John Lennon’s song “Imagine.” The producers are claiming a fair use exemption. Going online to find some more information about [...]
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 [...]
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