hi all On 01/02/2008, at 7:48 AM, Jay dedman wrote: > So i think CC licenses is totally important...but can we have Fair Use > if video is being used for criticism, debate, or conversation?
fair use is very weak. As far as I'm aware it doesn't formally exist here in Australia as a right, more a convention, and outside of edu contexts and a very informal practice by news organisations (where there are informal practices about quoting) you're on thin ice :-) CC really helps here, without it you don't have much in the way of rights. In addition there are precedents about around what you actually quote. Years ago someone famously lost a case where they used a very small part of Casablanca but the studio won because they argued that while the excerpt was very brief it was the most famous moment in the film. cheers Adrian Miles [EMAIL PROTECTED] bachelor communication honours coordinator vogmae.net.au
