Fair Use and Online Video
I find this sort of article interesting to read but ultimately more puzzling than directly useful. The difficulty is that so many such articles, presentations, documents etc. apparently confuse US law with some sort of world law, and attempt to apply it to a global concept such as the internet.
While it may seem easy to ignore the existence of people, countries, organizations and laws outside the USA, the internet has no such naivete and will happily serve your content to anyone who asks. This makes anything involving copyright enormously more complex. If you make and distribute something according to the US provisions of “fair use” it is still possible, and even likely, that it contravenes some other law or protocol applicable to some people who choose to view, listen, download or re-mix it.
I don’t know how to solve this problem, but I’m pretty sure that ignoring it and only considering the legal position in the USA is not a solution.
Online Video Resources — Center for Social Media at American University
For years Frank Carver has been paying attention to the strange world of convergent technology. During that time he has discussed and researched broad subject areas, come to some surprising conclusions, produced and distributed digital media, scattered ideas and opinions like sparks from a firework, and above all consulted for businesses both large and small to help develop and deploy successful systems, services, and products in this highly complex arena.
