Fair use: Buffy and Twilight remix

re: Fair use: Buffy and Twilight remix

Pat Aufderheide — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:48:03 GMT

Hooray for Buffy v Twilight and your great observation that what's at stake is the future of our culture. Yes, people should be able to make new culture out of the culture they have--that's how people have always done it, after all! Fortunately, remixers now have a solid, reliable guide to their fair use rights, in the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video (http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/resources/publications/fair_use_in_online_video/). This helps them stay legal (and even respond to a counter-takedown), if they can obtain material from a source that doesn't require breaking encryption. (This is what Jonathan McIntosh was able to do.) The Code of Best Practices was created by an amazing team of lawyers and cultural studies experts, and has been widely circulated. Google (owner of YouTube) even sponsored a short film about it (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79h78azzauA). For more information on fair use, and more codes of best practices--including for teachers and filmmakers--go to centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse.

re: Fair use: Buffy and Twilight remix

Jonathan — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:49:49 GMT

I think this is the first post on Buffy vs Edward remix that talks about fair use!

re: Fair use: Buffy and Twilight remix

Tama — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 01:45:00 GMT

I think the biggest issue with Australian Fair Dealing, though, is while - as a nation - we've adopted the US restrictions on use, we've not broadened fair dealing to include the core principle (in my opinion) of fair use, which is the value of TRANSFORMATIVE works. The Buffy V Edward clip wouldn't, for example, be a legal work just because of its transformative nature in Au - it'd probably have to be defended as an educational work, which would be an uphill battle, I'd imagine!