> *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