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> -- 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 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.ScreenSite.org