Pat Aufderheide: Making Copyright Your Friend: Journalism and Fair Use
The biggest problem that American Journalists have with copyright today is that they actually do not know the law well enough and in particular the part of the law that they do not know, is fair use. She shares the three ways in which Judges take the vague expression of ‘fair use’ in the law with its four factors that nobody knows how to balance and nobody knows what it means and turns it into something that they can use to make a judgment.
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ABOUT Pat Aufderheide
“Patricia Aufderheide is a University Professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. She is the co-author with Peter Jaszi of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright (University of Chicago Press, July 2011) and author of ‘Documentary Film: Very Short Introductions’ (Oxford, 2007), ‘The Daily Planet’ (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of ‘Communications Policy in the Public Interest’ (Guilford Press, 1999).
She heads the Fair Use and Free Speech research project at the Center, in conjunction with Prof. Peter Jaszi in American University’s Washington College of Law. She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others.
She has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards, including the Preservation and Scholarship award in 2006 from the International Documentary Association, a career achievement award in 2008 from the International Digital Media and Arts Association, and the Woman of Vision Award from Women in Film and Video (DC) in 2010.
She serves on the Board of Directors of Kartemquin Films, a leading independent social documentary production company, and and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications including: Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper.
She has served on the Board of Directors of the Independent Television Service, which produces innovative television programming for under-served audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and on the film Advisory Board of the National Gallery of Art. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Minnesota.”
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