SCREEN-L Archives

July 2011, Week 2

SCREEN-L@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Options: Use Monospaced Font
Show Text Part by Default
Show All Mail Headers

Message: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Topic: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]
Author: [<< First] [< Prev] [Next >] [Last >>]

Print Reply
Subject:
From:
Patricia Aufderheide <[log in to unmask]>
Reply To:
Date:
Mon, 11 Jul 2011 14:58:14 -0400
Content-Type:
text/plain
Parts/Attachments:
text/plain (91 lines)
> *SPECIAL PREVIEW* for colleagues who teach Copyright law, Media studies,
> Film studies, Cultural Studies, and Introduction to Communication, from Pat
> Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi:
>
>
> *Our new book on copyright, creativity, and fair use is available for fall
> classes!*
>
> [image: Reclaiming Fair Use]We wanted to share with you a special preview
> of our new book,
> *Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright* (University of
> Chicago<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.press.uchicago.edu%2Fucp%2Fbooks%2Fbook%2Fchicago%2FR%2Fbo11671240.html>,
> 2011), which is rolling off the presses and will be in Amazon<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=2&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FReclaiming-Fair-Use-Balance-Copyright%2Fdp%2F0226032280%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fie%3DUTF8%26amp%3Bqid%3D1309958401%26amp%3Bsr%3D8-1>and
> stores<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=3&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.press.uchicago.edu%2Fbooks%2Fbookstores.html>by mid-August. You can pre-order now, of course, and get it c. August 15, or
> ask for a desk copy<http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/instructors.html#desk>.
> (If you encounter any problems, let us know.)
>
> It's early, we know, but knowing you might already be lining up fall
> reading lists, we’ve made available some excerpts<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fcenterforsocialmedia.org%2Freclaiming>for you to sample on the Center for Social Media
> website<http://org2.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=-1&url_num=5&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.centerforsocialmedia.org%2F>.
>
>
 The book is short, low-cost, crisply written and packed with examples; it
provides a historical background on the evolution of fair use law, a
discussion of the building movement to articulate fair use norms, and helps
users do their own reasoning on fair use.

>  It argues against the notion that current copyright law has become
> unworkable and obsolete in the era of digital technologies, and asserts that
> using fair use rights is an important free speech act.
>
> We’d also love your questions and feedback at any of these:
> [log in to unmask] or our own emails, [log in to unmask] and
> [log in to unmask] And of course we'd be grateful beyond measure if
> you could share this information with colleagues!
>
                   Thank you so much! Sincerely,  Pat Aufderheide & Peter
> Jaszi
>

*Please forward this to any and all who might be interested.*

>
> --
> Pat Aufderheide, University Professor and Director
> Center for Social Media, School of Communication
> American University
> 3201 New Mexico Av. NW, #330
> Washington, DC 20016-8080
> www.centerforsocialmedia.org
> [log in to unmask]
> 202-643-5356
>
> Order *Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright*, with
> Peter Jaszi. University of Chicago Press, 2011<http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=as_li_qf_sp_sr_tl?ie=UTF8&keywords=reclaiming%20fair%20use&tag=centerforsoci-20&index=aps&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=932>.
>
>
> On *Reclaiming Fair Use:*
>
> "The Supreme Court has told us that fair use is one of the "traditional
> safeguards" of the First Amendment.  As this book makes abundantly clear,
> nobody has done better work making sure that safeguard is actually effective
> than Aufderheide and Jaszi.  The day we have a First Amendment Hall of Fame,
> their names should be there engraved in stone.  --Lewis Hyde, author, *Common
> as Air: Revolution, Art and Ownership*
>
> “*Reclaiming Fair Use* will be an important and widely read book that
> scholars of copyright law will find a ‘must have’ for their bookshelves. It
> is a sound interpretation of the law and offers useful guidance to the
> creative community that goes beyond what some of the most ideological books
> about copyright tend to say.”—Pamela Samuelson, University of California,
> Berkeley School of Law
>
> "If you only read one book about copyright this year, read *Reclaiming
> Fair Use.  *It is the definitive history of the cataclysmic change in the
> custom and practice surrounding the  fair use of materials  by filmmakers
> and other groups."  --Michael Donaldson, Esq. Senior Partner, Donaldson &
> Callif, Los Angeles.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

----
For past messages, visit the Screen-L Archives:
http://bama.ua.edu/archives/screen-l.html

ATOM RSS1 RSS2