1. Copyright and Fair Use: The Best Practices Model Pat Aufderheide Center for Social Media, School of Communication, American University Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law, American University 1

2. Why Teachers and Librarians Have More Freedom to Work than They Think 2

3. Two words: Fair Use 3

4. Creativity as a collaborative act (unlike the romantic cliché of the suffering lonely genius) 4

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6. Fair Use is the escape hatch from private censorship in copyright 6

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8. Purpose of Copyright: To promote the creation of culture 8

9. By: Rewarding creators with limited monopoly Encouraging new makers to use existing culture 9

10. Why balance? All culture created on existing culture (we used to know that) The First Amendment (no censorship) 10

11. Imbalance ! Copyright term extension Default copyright Large copyright holders’ anti- piracy tactics 11

12. GOOD NEWS… Judges love balancing features Supreme Court denies term extension because there’s fair use 12

13. Fair Use: The right to use copyrighted material when the benefit to society is greater than the harm to the owner 13

14. Huh? 14

15. Judges ask: Did you transform the use? Did you use the appropriate amount to satisfy the transformative use? Or, thumbnail: Did it hurt the original market? 15

16. Decades of misinformation Digital copying Corporate fear of piracy 16

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18. Education Knowledge of the law Awareness of problem Articulation of consensus around fair use 18

19. Communities define fair use for themselves: Documentary filmmakers Film scholars Online video makers Media literacy teachers 19

20. Enter… …the scholars. 20

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23. Results: Broadcasters program films Cablecasters program films Filmmakers develop new kinds of projects Television/web companies expand their plans All insurers of errors and omissions insurance now accept fair use claims 23

24. Film scholars 24

25. Online video 25

26. English teachers 26

27. Media literacy categories Teaching with copyrighted material Using copyrighted material in curriculum materials Circulating curriculum materials with copyrighted material in them Student use of copyrighted materials in their work Circulating student work 27

28. And next…. Communication scholars Dance archivists Open courseware programs 28

29. Who else? Librarians? Literature/English professors? ?? 29

30. Fair Use: Practice Makes Practice 30

31. Research + Community = Changes in Practice 31

32. Pat Aufderheide Center for Social Media School of Communication American University Washington, DC paufder@american.edu 202-885-2069 32

33. Peter Jaszi Washington College of Law American University Washington, DC pjaszi@wcl.american.edu 202-274-4216 33