A review of 'The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Independent Filmmaking'
Fair Use
As we poise gingerly on the precipice of another year, we tend to look back longingly, one last time, at the year that brought us here. Fortunately
In the nearly two years since IDA with other film organizations launched the Documentary Filmmakers' Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use, the
Pat Aufderheide discusses rights and ownership in the Web 2.0 domain.
There was a time, not long ago, when the thought of using material that could not be cleared was quickly banished from a documentarian's mind
A review of Michael Donaldson's 'Clearance & Copyright: 3rd Edition.'
Filmmaking is a constant struggle between creative vision and budgetary restraint. In the production of our documentary, Bigger Stronger Faster, no issue better demonstrated this tug-of-war than our use of archival footage.
Copyright clearance seems like the weather. You can complain about it, but you can't do anything about it. Or can you? When we did some research at
A proposal for a European Best Practice on Fair Use in Documentaries.