Subject: RE: Response to Sara Hindmarch From: "Hershey, Kay" <khershey@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 17:52:57 -0600 |
Ms Harper, thank you for your response. I had been thinking that a case for fair use, depending on one's risk tolerance, might be made for this instance, so I'm glad to have you agree with that thought. It certainly points out that one needs to use the Fair Use Checklist (http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/checklist.htm) and be clear that one's use is, indeed, not going to affect the market for the works involved, and probably will increase the public's knowledge of them. Now, if one decides that the use is fair, how, or does, one indicate that in the video? Or does one? Kay Hershey Metro Community College ________________________________ From: Harper, Georgia [mailto:GHARPER@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Fri 2/10/2006 2:27 PM To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Response to Sara Hindmarch Sara: There are cases on the issue of what constitutes incidental use (which is a fair use), and you can be pointed to them, but the real issue is going to be risk tolerance. See the discussion of this very type of circumstance in Lessig's Free Culture, Chapter 7, pp. 95 - 99 (available online under a Creative Commons license, for free -- http://www.free-culture.cc/freeculture.pdf). Before you commit to getting permission for 2, or at most 5 seconds of a work of art on display in a public museum as a camera pans the gallery space, please read the recently completed Documentary Filmmakers' Best Practices in Fair Use at http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pd f. The subject matter (documentary films) isn't precisely your subject matter, but the concepts are broadly applicable to creative uses of other's materials. The culture of narrowly defining fair use (including narrowly defining each of its 4 factors), of getting permission for every single use no matter how incidental, no matter how small, no matter how insignificant, in both nonprofit and commercial filmmaking, is not without its societal cost (above and beyond the cost to the person seeking permission). Please have a look and then think about it. Risk tolerance has a role to play in creative endeavors - even if they directly or indirectly raise revenues. Georgia Harper Georgia Harper Univ. of Tx. System Office of General Counsel gharper@xxxxxxxxxxxx 512/499-4462
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