On Dec. 10, Pat Aufderheide joined historian Richard John and two policy activists, Sascha Meinrath and Andrew Jay Schwartzman, at the New America Foundation. Richard John discussed his recent book, Network Nation, which charts the origins of communication policies for the telegraph and the telephone. 
On Dec. 8, Pat Aufderheide and Julia Bacha, director of the documentary Budrus, talked about making films on challenging subjects at Washington D.C.’s West End Cinema. Budrus, like other films from Just Vision, focuses on civilian efforts for peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. 
David Van Taylor, a leading American documentarian, recently carried the news of the U.S. fair use movement to Europe, at the Nordisk Panorama Film Festival. Here is his report:
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