Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University created this humorous, yet informative, review of copyright principles delivered through the words of the very folks we can thank for nearly endless copyright terms.
View (streaming) or download (mp4) the whole film or watch it on YouTube.
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Distributed on DVD by The Media Education Foundation.
Couldnt get the stream to work with my player but the MP4 download worked a treat. Nice project Eric very well thought out and excellent use of the different films :)
This is absolutely brilliant! I just embedded the youtube clip at http://blog.ninapaley.com/2008/09/01/a-fairy-use-tale/
As an animator, I am particularly thrilled by it. Bravo!
As a 'vidder' who creates "Transformative Artwork" from pieces of popular culture, I advocate the broadest possible definition of "Fair Use" as a necessary protection for freedom of expression.
I've used this video in classes in the past, but something keeps bugging me. Isn't one of the basic limitations of educational fair use a requirement not to distribute the work on an open network (like YouTube or the internet if it's not part of a restricted environment)? Fair use allows portions of copyright protected works to be used under certain circumstances, but I didn't think posting to YouTube was one of those circumstances. Aren't I correct that educational fair use would allow, for example, a teacher or student to use a copyright-protected image or video clip in a PowerPoint show played in class, but it would prohibit them from displaying the same work on a web page that was published for anyone to view on the WWW?
As a university administrator and Disney fanatic, I found this to be simply incredible! You can bet I will be using it with my honors students. THANK YOU for this work!
everytime I click on the download link it just opens it in stream view, it does not download. I want to use it in a classroom setting but I can't if I can't get it onto my computer.