List of fair-use best-practices documents.

CAA has published the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts, a set of principles addressing fair use of copyrighted materials.

For Brad Rosen's CPSC 183 Class

Lyrics:

(Blurred Lines)
Ok you wrote a song,
A tune that swept the nation,
But then us college kids,
we made an imitation

We took the melody
used it for parody
we used it fairly

So if you want to take
Some sort of legal action
Well I can guarantee,
You’ll get no satisfaction

You start assuming,
that you can sue me,
but you can’t sue me

(Chorus: Respect)

F-A-I-R U-S-E, find out what it means to me
F-A-I-R U-S-E, Brownmark v. LLC
(Transformative, Transformative!)

(Partition)
Driver turn up the remixes please,
You ain’t trying to see college kids displeased,
Heard “Wrecking Ball” ‘bout a million times,
but mix it with it with a house beat, then I get hype,
Cus I hear it in a new context that I like
The has a different melody than the old one might
that has a different set of goals that puts it in a new light
so you don’t have to bother with the legal fight

(Talk Dirty To Me)
Talk legal to me
Talk legal to me
Talk legal to me
Talk legal to me

(Chorus)

(I Know I’m Not The Only One)
You might think we made a vow,
I’d never use your works,
Unless you signed permission down,
You think that they’d stay all yours

You say I’m lazy, because I used a part of your song,
But I transformed it baby,
and your anaconda might want some
your anaconda might want some
your anaconda might want some
your anaconda might want some

(The Count Censored)
You know they call me the Count
Because I really love to (transform original works)
I could sit and (remix) all day
Sometimes I get carried away

I (mix) slowly, slowly, slowly getting faster
Once I've started (mixing) it's really hard to stop
Faster, faster. It is so exciting!
I (dub) count forever, (mix) until I drop

Hey!
1! 2! 3! 4!
1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4,
1-2, i love (mixing) whatever the amount hey!
1-2-3-4, heyyayaya heyyayaya that's the song
of the count!

What's wrong with measure 17?
(Chorus)

At a U.S. House hearing, representatives for publishers and colleges argue over whether federal government should get involved in determining how institutions can use copyrighted works.

For ease of reblogging, etc., here is the full text of the comment that I, Peter Jaszi, and Michael Carroll submitted to the Copyright Office on Wednesday.

For our third expert post this week, we are delighted to welcome Kenneth D. Crews.  Crews is an internationally recognized expert on copyright, libraries, and fair use.  He is currently Of Counsel …

Update: GoldieBlox removed the original video and posted a public apology. See below for updates. Everyone thinks they know how copyright works, and everyone’s usually wrong. Who can blame them? It’s often counterintuitive, inconsistent, and riddled with grey areas and edge cases. And no area of copyright law is more confusing than fair use, deliberately […]

I first saw the news about Thursday’s decision affirming fair use in the Authors Guild v. Google Books case when I turned my phone back on after an eleven hour flight from Istanbul.  The Turkish Air plane was still taxiing at JFK at the time, so when I cheered out loud I got a lot … Continue reading A wide-angle lens on fair use →

Not made by me,found it online,available for download on website

Disney Parody explanation of Copyright Law and Fair Use

Synopsis:
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University provides this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.

***Description taken from website***

Video Found at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/documentary-film-program/film/a-fair-y-use-tale

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