The new rules allow circumvention for the "incorporation of short portions of
motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment" in
three instances:
(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and
university film and media studies students; [I assume this means a professor in
any discipline, but if a student does it they must be in film/media studies
programs, not history, languages, etc.]
(ii) Documentary filmmaking;
(iii) Noncommercial videos
I interpret these last two exclusions to mean the DVDs can be circumvented in
order to obtain the excerpts for "criticism or comment," but doesn't say this
is part of Fair Use. In other words, the method of obtaining the clip is now OK
(circumvention), but it doesn't say that the content doesn't need to be
licensed. What do others think?
Linda Tadic
Audiovisual Archive Network
lta...@archivenetwork.org
----- Original Message -----
From: Jessica Rosner
To: videolib@lists.berkeley.edu
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2010 12:46 PM
Subject: Re: [Videolib] New copyright rules re: DMCA exemptions are
finallyannounced - and they are now exempt educational uses by all university
professors and students
Very sensible. It allows you circumvent the DMCA in order to use a small
portion of a work for a class etc. I especially appreciate that it really
spells out this is a small portion and for a "transformative" purpose.
Jessica
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Chris Lewis <cle...@american.edu> wrote:
http://www.copyright.gov/1201/
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