It’s been a while since I posted about fair use. But the Center for Social Media, the Washington College of Law and others who have joined the fray, like Stanford’s Fair Use project, continue to fight the good fight. From the Center’s newsletter:

Chicago filmmaker Floyd Webb wanted to make a movie about a colorful martial arts figure, who called himself Counte Dante (http://johnkeehan.blogspot.com/). The grandmaster of the Black Dragon Fighting Society, William V. Aguiar III, tried to stop him by blocking his access to images of Counte Dante and material from his training video. But Webb had attended an Independent Feature Project panel discussion of the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. (IFP was a signatory and co-author of the document, which was facilitated by the Center and the Washington College of Law.) Read the whole article>>

Got a great short that employs fair use? Submit to the Center’s contest! In partnership with the University Film & Video Association, there are cash prizes for student and faculty entries. Deadline is May 1.