Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
November 18, 2005 8:55 AM
Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use
Faced with a growing array of copyright problems, filmmakers and their national organizations have worked with scholars at American University to create a Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. The Statement [PDF], to be released today, describes a range of situations in which documentary filmmakers agree they have the right to quote copyrighted material without licensing it. Full disclosure: I work for AU, and wrote the press release about this but didn't have anything to do with creating the statement. I didn't want to risk this semi-self-link in the blue.
Faced with a growing array of copyright problems, filmmakers and their national organizations have worked with scholars at American University to create a Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. The Statement [PDF], to be released today, describes a range of situations in which documentary filmmakers agree they have the right to quote copyrighted material without licensing it. Full disclosure: I work for AU, and wrote the press release about this but didn't have anything to do with creating the statement. I didn't want to risk this semi-self-link in the blue.
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