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March 3: Fair Use Event at NYU

Posted on February 14, 2006

During this year's call for entries we announced our partnership with the Center for Social Media (CFSM) and our commitment honoring one film with a Fair Use award. We received many submissions that both employ fair use as well as explore the issue. This past weekend, Shira Golding and I conducted a workshop at the Grassroots Media Conference and we discussed and distributed copies of the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practice in Fair Use published by the CFSM.

On March 3, 2006, NYU in association with the CFSM will sponsor the event "Free Speech? Fair Use? Who Owns Our History? Who Shapes Our Culture?" Filmmakers, broadcasters, lawyers and scholars will convene to explain and discuss how documentary filmmakers are taking back the right to claim fair use of copyrighted material in certain circumstances using the new handbook Documentary Filmmakers'' Statement of Best Practice in Fair Use. Shira Golding is be presenting a short film on Fair Use and other speakers include:

George Stoney, Filmmaker & NYU faculty
Pat Aufderheide, Center for Social Media
Jack Willis, FreeSpeech TV
John Alpert, Downtown Community TV
Dan Caughlin, Manhattan Neighborhood Network
Marjorie Heins, Brennan Center for Justice, NYU
Byron Hurt, Filmmaker
David Van Taylor, Filmmaker

Free Speech? Fair Use? Who Owns Our History? Who Shapes Our Culture?
March 3rd, 7-9pm
Cooper Union's Wollman Auditorium
51 Astor Place
Free

Learn more about Fair Use from the Center for Social Media.