Thanks for calling this out, Jeremy.  My colleague, Steve Anderson, is 
the founder of Critical Commons and doing important work for all of us.  
I'd encourage everyone to make use of Critical Commons for the clips 
they use in teaching and for research (for instance, it's a great way to 
make available to students the clips you use in class without having to 
worry about getting sued!)  The more people who use the site, the better 
it will become.

Best,
Tara


On 9/13/2010 7:51 AM, Jeremy Butler wrote:
> 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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