*Our fair use book is finally out! *
For years, Peter Jaszi and I have been working on a book that synthesizes our experience with fair use, which many people in the Center for Social Media network contributed to, by helping us learn how communities of practice useand improve their use of this valuable right. Thank you! The University of Chicago Press has just sent me my first copies of Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcenterforsocialmedia.org%2Freclaiming>. It's hard to believe it's finally here. We argue in the book that a vibrant culture needs vigorous and confident employment of fair use, which is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment in some circumstances. In doing so, we're also challenging an all-too-common misconception that current copyright law has become unworkable and obsolete in the era of digital technologies. We expect controversy, and have already had a peek at it<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcenterforsocialmedia.org%2Fblog%2Ffair-use%2Fchronicle-higher-ed-showcases-fair-use-debate-breaks-out> . We worked to make the book short, low-priced and accessible to all kinds of creators. It's got quizzes and stories and examples of successful fair use. We're eager to get your feedback, as always, at socialme...@american.edu Sincerely, Pat Aufderheide * **Please forward this to any and all who might be interested.* -- Pat Aufderheide, University Professor and Director Center for Social Media, School of Communication American University 3201 New Mexico Av. NW, #330 Washington, DC 20016-8080 www.centerforsocialmedia.org pauf...@american.edu 202-643-5356 [image: Reclaiming Fair Use 9.13.11.jpg]Order *Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright*, with Peter Jaszi. University of Chicago Press, 2011<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_tl?ie=UTF8&keywords=reclaiming%20fair%20use&tag=centerforsoci-20&index=aps&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=932>. Sample *Reclaiming Fair Use! * <http://centerforsocialmedia.org/reclaiming> Early comments on *Reclaiming Fair Use:* "The Supreme Court has told us that fair use is one of the "traditional safeguards" of the First Amendment. As this book makes abundantly clear, nobody has done better work making sure that safeguard is actually effective than Aufderheide and Jaszi. The day we have a First Amendment Hall of Fame, their names should be there engraved in stone. --Lewis Hyde, author, *Common as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership* “*Reclaiming Fair Use* will be an important and widely read book that scholars of copyright law will find a ‘must have’ for their bookshelves. It is a sound interpretation of the law and offers useful guidance to the creative community that goes beyond what some of the most ideological books about copyright tend to say.”—Pamela Samuelson, University of California, Berkeley School of Law "If you only read one book about copyright this year, read *Reclaiming Fair Use. *It is the definitive history of the cataclysmic change in the custom and practice surrounding the fair use of materials by filmmakers and other groups." --Michael Donaldson, Esq. Senior Partner, Donaldson & Callif, Los Angeles.
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