A Fair(y) Use Tale

Anthony Falzone — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 13:30:52 -0800

Synopsis:

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.

This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License

Distributed on DVD by The Media Education Foundation.

AssignmentZero

Lauren Gelman — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 13:28:07 -0700

Jay Rosen's NewAssignment.net and Wired News just launched AssignmentZero, "an attempt to bring journalists together with people in the public who can help cover a story."

I think this is a really wonderful project that takes the concept of citizen journalism to the next level by creating a platform for professionals and amateurs to collaborate on one story. Check it out and sign up to be a part of the project. Their first project-- assignment zero-- is about crowdsourcing and the larger practice it's part of: peer production on the new information commons.

(I wrote their copyright and privacy policy so please let me know if you have any feedback on that.)

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A Fair(y) Use Tale

AssignmentZero