{"id":572,"date":"2006-04-03T06:33:09","date_gmt":"2006-04-03T06:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/572"},"modified":"2006-04-03T06:33:09","modified_gmt":"2006-04-03T06:33:09","slug":"statement-of-fair-use-in-documentary-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/archives\/572","title":{"rendered":"Statement of fair use in documentary films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/garhodes.com\/\">brother<\/a> is working on a documentary called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/wegensteinrhodes.com\/\">Reality Made Over<\/a><\/i>, about Fox&#8217;s plastic-surgery reality TV show <i>&#8220;The Swan&#8221;<\/i>. Of course, since his subject matter television there&#8217;re lots of questions about what he needs permission to use and what counts as fair use under copyright law. Talking to him about it reminded me of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsocialmedia.org\/rock\/backgrounddocs\/bestpractices.pdf\">Documentary Filmmakers&#8217; Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use<\/a> that was put out by several associations of video and filmmakers, in consultation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsocialmedia.org\/\">Center for Social Media<\/a> at American University.<\/p>\n<p>From their introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>This Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use makes  clear what documentary filmmakers currently  regard as reasonable application of the copyright  \u201cfair use\u201d doctrine. Fair use expresses the core  value of free expression within copyright law. The  statement clarifies this crucial legal doctrine, to  help filmmakers use it with confidence. Fair use is  shaped, in part, by the practice of the professional  communities that employ it. The statement is  informed both by experience and ethical principles.  It also draws on analogy: documentary filmmakers  should have the same kind of access to copyrighted  materials that is enjoyed by cultural and historical  critics who work in print media and by news  broadcasters.<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My <a href=\"http:\/\/garhodes.com\/\">brother<\/a> is working on a documentary called <i><a href=\"http:\/\/wegensteinrhodes.com\/\">Reality Made Over<\/a><\/i>, about Fox&#8217;s plastic-surgery reality TV show <i>&#8220;The Swan&#8221;<\/i>. Of course, since his subject matter television there&#8217;re lots of questions about what he needs permission to use and what counts as fair use under copyright law. Talking to him about it reminded me of the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsocialmedia.org\/rock\/backgrounddocs\/bestpractices.pdf\">Documentary Filmmakers&#8217; Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use<\/a> that was put out by several associations of video and filmmakers, in consultation with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centerforsocialmedia.org\/\">Center for Social Media<\/a> at American University.<\/p>\n<p>From their introduction:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>This Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use makes  clear what documentary filmmakers currently  regard as reasonable application of the copyright  \u201cfair use\u201d doctrine. Fair use expresses the core  value of free expression within copyright law. The  statement clarifies this crucial legal doctrine, to  help filmmakers use it with confidence. Fair use is  shaped, in part, by the practice of the professional  communities that employ it. The statement is  informed both by experience and ethical principles.  It also draws on analogy: documentary filmmakers  should have the same kind of access to copyrighted  materials that is enjoyed by cultural and historical  critics who work in print media and by news  broadcasters.<\/i> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-intellectual-property"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.docbug.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}