Fair Use

This month's Fair Use Question features a discussion about the difference between parody and satire.  You can find this question and more in professors Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi's new book, Reclaiming Fair Use!

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Conversation is building in higher education about academic rights to fair use. In Inside Higher Ed, the leading online news source for U.S. higher education, I discussed prevalent "Myths about Fair Use". Read more...

Guest Post by Jan Boyles

It’s time to protect the hard-won fair use rights that artists, professors, librarians and online video makers won three years ago at the Copyright Office. The Library of Congress has issued a Notice of Inquiry calling for written comments by December 1. Read more...

After the “Fair Use: In the Classroom, the Library and the Field” panel at UFVA, we were joined by a group of professors for a Fair Use Working Group lunch to discuss current issues with professors who are not only trying to encourage fair use in their students' work but practicing fair use themselves in their teaching. From the discussion, we have a lot of ideas for new resources to add to the fair use section of the Center for Social Media’s website.   Read more...

At the University Film and Video Association annual conference, keynote speaker Holly Willis celebrated both the Center and our new book, Reclaiming Fair Use. Read more...