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New Copyright and Fair Use Project

jennifer

One of our interns asked me an interesting question a while back: “If I download an image from say Amazon.com and then videotape that image, does that fall under fair use?”  Suffice to say, we were stumped. 

Luckily, we’re not alone.  American University’s Center for Social Media and Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property are working on a project to establish a “best practices” guide to user-generated content on the web to clear up these ambiguities.

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