Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy

Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Nov, 2008

The American University’s Center for Social Media released a new Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy guide yesterday.

“This guide identifies five principles that represent the media literacy education community’s current consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K–12 education, in higher education, in nonprofit organizations that offer programs for children and youth, and in adult education.”

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Fair Use of Online Video: Code of Practice

Posted by Celia Walter | 8 Jul, 2008

Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

July 8th, 2008

The Center for Social Media at American University’s School of Communication presents a best practices report for making online videos within the boundaries of fair use. Building on their previous report, Recut, Reframe, Recycle, the study guides video makers through acceptable practices according to copyright law. Some of these acceptable uses include:

  • Commenting on or Critiquing of Copyrighted Material
  • Using Copyrighted Material for Illustration or Example
  • Capturing Copyrighted Material Incidentally or Accidentally
  • Reproducing, Reposting, or Quoting in Order to Memorialize, Preserve, or Rescue and Experience, An Event, or a Cultural Phenomenon
  • Copying, Reposting, and Recirculating a Work or Part of a Work for Purposes of Launching a Discussion
  • Quoting in Order to Recombine Elements to make a New Work that Depends for its Meaning on (Often Unlikely) Relationships Between the Elements

So if you’re considering making video mashups, or using copyrighted video for instructional purposes, etc. you’ll want to check out this report.

via Social Media

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