A presentation at the University of Bergen, Norway, on the best practices in fair use project at American University's Center for Social Media, and its implications for European creators.
16. WHEN WE •  It’s hard to license
TRY TO USE •  It’s hard to find out
EXISTING who owns it
CULTURE TO
•  We’re locked out and
MAKE NEW
punished if we break
CULTURE: the locks
•  We’re not sure what
the balancing features
of our laws are
21. BUILD AN ARTIFICIAL
PUBLIC DOMAIN BY
TWEAKING LICENSES
•  GPL (free software license) &
Creative Commons licenses
…enabling new pools of content
•  Open source software
•  Open CourseWare
42. RESULTS
•  Broadcasters program films
•  Cablecasters program films
•  Filmmakers develop new
kinds of projects
•  Television/web companies
expand their plans
•  All insurers of errors and
omissions insurance now
accept fair use claims
44. MEDIA LITERACY
CATEGORIES
•  Teaching with copyrighted
material
•  Using copyrighted material in
curriculum materials
•  Circulating curriculum materials
with copyrighted material in them
•  Student use of copyrighted
materials in their work
•  Circulating student work
47. U.S. MOVEMENT
•  Film scholars
•  Archivists
•  Open Courseware
•  Int’l Communication Ass’n
•  Business (“we wouldn’t
even be talking if…”)
48. FIRST STEPS OF INTERNATIONAL
MOVEMENT TO USE
EXEMPTIONS
•  Canadian filmmakers
•  Mexican filmmakers
•  EU filmmakers
•  South African filmmakers