Katie Bieze's Posts

The documentary The End of The Line has provided yet another example of how documentarians are measuring the social impact of their media. 

The End Of The Line used qualitative and quantitative analysis, focus groups, and media analysis for their study, and their findings can be found here. Read more...

Presumed Guilty, the POV film featured in The Center for Social Media's 2010 Human Rights Film Series, made news recently when a federal judge ruled that the film be pulled from theatres after one of the witnesses featured in the film filed a claim saying that his privacy had been violated. Read more...

On March 12th, I attended the Society for Cinema and Media Studies' Annual   Conference in New Orleans, Louisiana to sit on a panel for a workshop called Fair  Use as Civil Right: Expansion of Expression for Scholars, Teachers, Learners. Read more...

Students in the Foreign Policy and the Press Course at American University learned all about fair use from graduate fellows Katie Bieze and Maria Howell last week. The class needed the information to complete an assignment creating video mashups that make a journalistic commentary on a foreign policy issue. Read more...

In this month's Fair Use Question, filmmakers aren't sure if they can get permission from the owners of footage that they'd like to use, and are curious about whether or not this affects a potential fair use claim.

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