Who owns the images of our world? Where do ideas end and images begin? How can we both defend the freedoms and rights of filmmakers and encourage the
Fair Use
Documentary filmmakers who use archival materials fall into two basic categories: those who are savvy about rights clearance issues and those who aren
By Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi A study conducted with some 50 documentary filmmakers over the course of a year, the American University's "Untold
Our first Doc U seminar of 2012 was all about fair use.
A review of Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jasci's 'Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright'
As primetime television continues to phase out scripted fare in favor of more inexpensively produced "reality" programming, and as documentaries
A review of 'The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Independent Filmmaking'
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
Michael C. Donaldson The IDA has negotiated a huge breakthrough for one of the most daunting economic hurdles for documentary filmmakers. Media