Fairy Use (Short Film) by David Cooper Moore and Jeremy Levine

Source:

Moore, David, and Jeremy Levine. "Fairy Use." YouTube. YouTube, 8 May 2006. Web. 22 Oct. 2013.

Link for online viewing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lf05MDTsPHU

I selected this short film created by David Cooper Moore and Jeremy Levine for my class presentation. Using snippets of Disney characters to verbalize in a cartoon fairy tale style, they illustrate the definition of fair use.  The narrative is derived from the Documentary Filmmakers’ Statement of Best Practices in Fair Use. These guidelines were developed as a response to a growing problem faced by documentary filmmakers.  It is a common belief that far too often filmmakers are reluctant to use all of the material available because they are hesitant to take advantage of the fair use doctrine

Unfortunately much of the opposition to the Google Book Project shares many of the same restrictive ideas. While courts have determined that scanning websites to create data for the search engines, Google has met opposition to the book scanning project.

Additional Links Discussed:

DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS' STATEMENT OF BEST PRACTICES IN FAIR USE

Source: http://www.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/best-practices/documentary/documentary-filmmakers-statement-best-practices-fair-use

Discussion Questions

1.)   Did the filmmakers follow these recommendations? How?

2.)   Why is it significant that they selected Disney clips?

3.)   Why is the question of copyright & Fair Use relevant to students?

4.)   How do you see this impacting the work that you produce now and in the future?

5.)   Search engines support their web trolling and indexing with Fair Use. Is this applicable?

6.)    How does this relate to the Google Book Project?

Handout provided in class.