This site has reached End of Life and will be taken down and removed on 01 Feb 2021.
It is strongly recommended that any material you would like to retain is downloaded before this date.

A Fair(y) Use Tale


Embed:
Download this video

FBI - WARNING - Federal law allows citizens to reproduce, distribute or exhibit portions of copywrited motion pictures, video tapes, or video disks

under certain circumstances without authorization of the copywrite holder. This infringement of copywrite is called fair use and is allowed for

purposes of criticism, news reporting, teaching and parody.

Video and text taken from http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale

Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet
informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words
of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

Freedom of Expression Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property - http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=127

Average: 3 (1 vote)
6486 reads

Comments

cfollows's picture

CC Licences and Fair Dealing March 25th, 2011 by Naomi Korn: I’ve just read a great blog post by David K. http://followersoftheapocalyp.se/so-whats-the-deal-with-fair-dealing about the relationship between Fair Dealing and CC Licences. He’s right on many fronts........http://www.web2rights.com/OERIPRSupport/blog/?p=125

cfollows's picture

Thanks, from Wikipedia (if it wasn't complicated enough) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_dealing - Fair dealing is a limitation and exception to the exclusive right granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work, which is found in many of the common law jurisdictions of the Commonwealth of Nations.

Fair dealing is an enumerated set of possible defences against an action for infringement of an exclusive right of copyright. Unlike the related United States doctrine of fair use, fair dealing cannot apply to any act which does not fall within one of these categories. In practice, common law courts might rule that actions with a commercial character, which might be naïvely assumed to fall into one of these categories, were in fact infringements of copyright as fair dealing is not as flexible a concept as the American concept of fair use.

Anonymous's picture

Of course - Fair Use is US, only. Google "fair dealing" for the (substantially different) story in the UK.