Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide

Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide

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Beginning with a survey of the contemporary landscape of copyright law, Aufderheide and Jaszi drew on their years of experience advising documentary filmmakers, English teachers, performing arts scholars, and other creative professionals to lay out in detail how the principles of fair use can be employed to avoid copyright violation.

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Reclaiming Fair Use by Patricia Aufderheide

In the increasingly complex and combative arena of copyright in the digital age, record companies sue college students over peer-to-peer music sharing, YouTube removes home movies because of a song playing in the background, and filmmakers are denied a distribution deal when a permissions "I" proves undottable. Analyzing the dampening effect that copyright law can have on scholarship and creativity, Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi urge us to embrace in response a principle embedded in copyright law itself--fair use. Originally published in 2011, Reclaiming Fair Use challenged the widely held notion that copyright law is obsolete in an age of digital technologies. Beginning with a survey of the contemporary landscape of copyright law, Aufderheide and Jaszi drew on their years of experience advising documentary filmmakers, English teachers, performing arts scholars, and other creative professionals to lay out in detail how the principles of fair use can be employed to avoid copyright violation. Taking stock of the vibrant remix culture that has only burgeoned since the book's original publication, this new edition addresses the expanded reach of fair use--tracking the Twitter hashtag #WTFU (where's the fair use?), the maturing of the transformativeness measure in legal disputes, the ongoing fight against automatic detection software, and the progress and delays of digitization initiatives around the country. Full of no-nonsense advice and practical examples, Reclaiming Fair Use remains essential reading for anyone interested in law, creativity, and the ever-broadening realm of new media.
Patricia Aufderheide is University Professor of communication studies in the School of Communication at American University's Washington School of Communication, and founder of the Center for Media & Social Impact, where she serves as Senior Research Fellow. Peter Jaszi is professor of law and director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic at American University's Washington College of Law.
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ISBN 13 9780226374192
ISBN 10 022637419X
Title Reclaiming Fair Use
Author Patricia Aufderheide
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher The University of Chicago Press
Year published 2018-04-23
Number of pages 256
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