Intellectual Property Law

"Recut, Reframe, Recycle"

By Siva Vaidhyanathan

That's the name of a new study by American University's Center for Social Media, which "shows that many uses of copyrighted material in today?s online videos are eligible for fair use consideration. The study points to a wide variety of practices?satire, parody, negative and positive commentary, discussion-triggers, illustration, diaries, archiving and of course, pastiche or collage (remixes and mashups)?all of which could be legal in some circumstances." Much more here.

Full post as published by SIVACRACY .NET on January 07, 2008 (boomark / email).