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Agnes Varnum is a freelance writer, film programmer and communications manager for the Austin Film Society. She is the primary contributor to doc it out and Tribeca Film Institute's Resources.

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Fair Use Wins in Court

May 19th, 2006 • Related Posts • Tags

If you don’t have it already, you need to pick up a copy of the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. But perhaps you’ve read it and you’ve watched the video examples on the Center for Social Media’s website but you still feel confused. “I get the theory but how will all of this play out in court?” you say. Well, the Billy Graham Archives kindly lost its challenge to fair use of imagery in a biography so that we may see how such decisions are made: Second Circuit Decides Fair Use Case Regarding Reduced Copies Of Images.

It can be tough to get the hand of reading legal decisions, but give it a whirl. It really is English, it’s just pompous. Otherwise, how would we know to respect it.

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