Articles in the Fair use Category
Copyright, Fair use, Intellectual Property, Music »
Just in time for the sections on intellectual property and fair use in my “Information Technology Ethics” class, the Israeli artist Kutiman released a brilliant collection of YouTube video mashups called “Thru You” (his site has been down due to traffic, but the mashups are also available here and here).
Kutiman has taken existing YouTube videos of people playing music alone, sampled, looped, mixed and mashed them together to make absolutely amazing new music. Here’s a sample:
These songs are genius. They are original. Yet, most interpretations of existing copyright laws would …
Copyright, Fair use, Intellectual Property »
A group of legal, cultural, and social scholars have published a “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video”, providing an important framework to help address the growing challenge of allowing fair use of online content in the face of more-and-more-powerful DRM and intellectual property right regimes, which inevitably over-protect content and often restrict valid fair uses.
Here is the introduction:
WHAT THIS IS
This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright …
