Fair use is necessary
A group of colleges have petitioned the U.S. Copyright Office for an exception to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act to allow them to excerpt electronic information for scholarly and critical purposes. This is absolutely necessary if we are going to develop this medium as a business and an art form. Two reasons:
Posted by Mitch Ratcliffe at December 31, 2002 01:12 PM | TrackBack
1.) If scholars cannot excerpt a scene from a digital film for use in a classroom, how will students become engaged with the techniques of production or the aesthetics of digital storytelling? We need to teach and debate this digital form.
2.) If it is illegal for a critic to excerpt a film or media file for academic or commercial purposes, how will potential audiences learn about new titles and feel empowered to make intelligent choices amongst titles?