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Copyright and Fair Use: The Best Practices Model Pat Aufderheide Center for Social Media, School of Communication, American University Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law, American University 1
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Why Teachers and Librarians Have More Freedom to Work than They Think 2
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Two words: Fair Use 3
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Creativity as a collaborative act (unlike the romantic cliché of the suffering lonely genius) 4
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Fair Use is the escape hatch from private censorship in copyright 6
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Purpose of Copyright: To promote the creation of culture 8
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By: Rewarding creators with limited monopoly Encouraging new makers to use existing culture 9
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Why balance? All culture created on existing culture (we used to know that) The First Amendment (no censorship) 10
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Imbalance ! Copyright term extension Default copyright Large copyright holders’ anti- piracy tactics 11
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GOOD NEWS… Judges love balancing features Supreme Court denies term extension because there’s fair use 12
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Fair Use: The right to use copyrighted material when the benefit to society is greater than the harm to the owner 13
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Huh? 14
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Judges ask: Did you transform the use? Did you use the appropriate amount to satisfy the transformative use? Or, thumbnail: Did it hurt the original market? 15
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Decades of misinformation Digital copying Corporate fear of piracy 16
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Education Knowledge of the law Awareness of problem Articulation of consensus around fair use 18
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Communities define fair use for themselves: Documentary filmmakers Film scholars Online video makers Media literacy teachers 19
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Enter… …the scholars. 20
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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 23
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Film scholars 24
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Online video 25
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English teachers 26
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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 27
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And next…. Communication scholars Dance archivists Open courseware programs 28
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Who else? Librarians? Literature/English professors? ?? 29
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Fair Use: Practice Makes Practice 30
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Research + Community = Changes in Practice 31
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Pat Aufderheide Center for Social Media School of Communication American University Washington, DC paufder@american.edu 202-885-2069 32
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Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law American University Washington, DC pjaszi@wcl.american.edu 202-274-4216 33
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