Fair Use

It's happened again: Bogus claims of copyright infringement brought down perfectly legitimate content--this time while a lot of people were watching. Read more...

In this month's fair use question, a new teacher asks for resources and strategies when it comes to teaching fair use to his students.

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At the second annual Wikipedia conference to be held in the U.S., copyright issues pervaded the discussions among folks from 83 (!) countries. Of course it did: Wikipedia is a reader-built encyclopedia that promises free content world-wide. And it’s doing that job in the middle of a sea of copyrighted content.Read more...

This month's fair use question comes from an employee in the IT department at  a university library who is looking to take advantage of fair use in order to fulfill a professor's request.

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In an effort to combat stereotypes of African men in mainstream Hollywood movies, Joe Sabia created this docu-mashup for a non-profit organization called Mama Hope. The organization works with local African groups to connect them with the resources required to transform their own communities.
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