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The Center for Social Media at American University recently released a report on fair use and internet media titled: Recut, Reframe, Recycle.

The co-authors, Professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, 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.

The report looks at a variety of examples of online media that are all eligible for fair use, which is the section of US copyright law that allows creators to freely use copyrighted work, under specific circumstances. While the authors note copyright as a generally positive thing for creators, they fear automated copyright protection is a threat to legal (fair) uses of these materials.

Read more:

• http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/recut_reframe_recycle
• Download the report from centerforsocialmedia.org directly

Published by The Thomas Koeppen Blog 2008.

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