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New video on code of best practices for online video appropriations

Thanks to Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing for information on the new ”Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video” written by an academic consortium out of American University’s Center for Social Media and the AU Law School and Stanford Law.  This great seven-minute video explains the circumstances that allow appropriations of copyrighted material.  My quick view of the video pulled up some of the fair use conditions:   don’t use too much material (ie, appropriate amounts) use for critique use for giving context use for launching discussion use for mashups always give credit to sources