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Fair Use Question of the Month: Placing Copyrighted Material On Display in a Public Exhibition

Posted by Bryan Bello on September 26, 2012

In this month's fair use question a librarian looks for insight on displaying a library's archive of movie posters  in a public exhibition.  Read more...

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Why are Bots Overriding Our Fair Use Rights?

Posted by on September 17, 2012

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...

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Fair Use Question of the Month: Limits on Quoting?

Posted by Bryan Bello on February 28, 2013

In this month's fair use question a PhD candidate is given a chance to publish, but is concerned his use of quotes might invite a lawsuit.

 

Dear CSM,

I’m a PhD candidate in film theory.  My paper on the depiction of mental health in Hollywood has been accepted by a journal. But I quote at length from dialogue in several films.Read more...

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Refrigerator Mothers - Fair Use Clips

For examples of choices made FOR the application of fair use by an independent filmmaker, consider the decisions made by Kartemquin Films when making Refrigerator Mothers. The film is available in its entirety from Fanlight Productions . In this group of clips, the filmmakers employed fair use. Read more...

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New Media Literacy Videos

The Center for Social Media teamed up with MIT's New Media Literacy project to create three video exemplars with six American University School of Communication students. Read more...

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