Friday, March 2

Copyright confusion

Copyright is a topic that can be confusing, to say the least-- and big media companies with an army of lawyers who send cease and desist letters can be enough to make anyone doubt themselves about using a particular copyrighted video or music clip in their own projects. Copyright can get complicated, but that shouldn't stop you from trying to educate yourself-- or exercise your fair use rights.

Duke University's Center for the Study of the Public Domain has an informative resource in comic book form called Bound By Law? that goes over copyright law and fair use from a documentary filmmaker's perspective. It's easy to read and quite informative. You can watch the flash version online, or download the pdf version.


2 comments:

  1. Might have to show this to my MUSC488 class, very pertinent to what we're talking about right now.

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