Don't know how I missed Critical Commons, a fair-use advocacy group and

Website, until today. Now, I feel I must spread the word!



They're fighting the good fight, specifically:



Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the use of

> media for scholarship, reasearch and teaching, providing resources,

> information and tools for scholars, students, educators and creators.

> Critical Commons provides information about current copyright law and its

> alternatives in order to facilitate the writing and dissemination of best

> practices and fair use guidelines for scholarly and creative communities.

> Critical Commons also functions as a showcase for innovative forms of

> electronic scholarship and creative production that are transformative,

> culturally enriching and both legally and ethically defensible.





> *At the heart of Critical Commons is an online tool for viewing, tagging,

> sharing, annotating and curating media within the guidelines established by

> a given community.* Our goal is to build open, informed communities around

> media-based teaching, learning and creativity, both inside and outside of

> formal educational environments.







http://criticalcommons.org/ <http://criticalcommons.org/about-us>







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Jeremy Butler



www.TVStyleBook.com

www.ScreenLex.org

www.ScreenSite.org

www.TVCrit.com

www.ShotLogger.org

www.AllThingsAcoustic.org



Professor - TCF Dept. - U Alabama



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