Fair Use Best Practice Statement from Center for Social Media

Faced with a growing array of copyright problems, filmmakers and their national organizations have worked with scholars at American University to create a Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. Over the last year, filmmakers have worked to jointly establish what they believe is fair and reasonable interpretation of fair use, in a project coordinated through the Center and AU's law school. The Statement describes a range of situations in which documentary filmmakers agree they have the right to quote copyrighted material without licensing it. For more information visit www.centerforsocialmedia.org.