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The Center is proud to present our lastest report Copyright, Free Speech, and the Public's Right to Know: How Journalists Think about Fair Use. Conducted jointly with the Information Justice and Intellectual Property program in American University's Washington College of Law, the project takes a deep look into the way journalists deal with copyright issues, which can affect not only their own careers, but journalism as a whole.

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Out Now: Reclaiming Fair Use  -- a book that empowers creators of all kinds. Profs. Patricia Aufderheide, director of the Center for Social Media, and Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law in the Washington College of Law at American University, urge a robust embrace  of a principle long-embedded in copyright law, but too often poorly understood—fair use.

Communication scholars need access to copyrighted material, need to make unlicensed uses of them in order to do their research, and often—especially within the United States—have the legal right to do so. But all too often they find themselves thwarted.

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ICA_-_Clipping.pdf

Motion Pictures and Copyright Discipline

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fairuse_motionpictures.pdf