Critical Commons partners with Open Video Alliance
Critical Commons took part in the inaugural meeting of the Open Video Alliance at Yale University Law School, in what promises to be a productive collaboration among technologists, legal experts and...
View ArticleDMCA Exemption Hearings Draw to a Close
Today was the last day of hearings on proposed extensions and expansion of exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act for classroom uses of copyrighted media. The Copyright Office, which grants...
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Center for Social Media Publishes New Code of Best Practices in OCW
The Center for Social Media (CSM) at American University has released another of its important Codes of Best Practices in Fair Use, this time, as it applies to the historically vexing realm of...
View ArticleCritical Commons at Open Video Alliance
In this five-minute video, Critical Commons founder Steve Anderson sketches the origins, goals and context of the project for attendees at the 2009 Open Video conference at NYU. During this "lightning...
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Lessig on Fair Use
Two excellent illustrated lectures by Lawrence Lessig have gone online (and were also amusingly taken down thanks to the automated DMCA trolls from Warner Music Group) in recent weeks: one from...
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H5's Logorama: Best Animated Trademark Dilution
The French design firm H5 has been responsible for some of the most remarkable graphics-oriented music videos and short films of the past decade and their Logorama, which won the Academy Award for...
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Of Memes and Media Takedowns
As a recent contributor to the "Hitler meme" genre of detourned video parodies of the movie Downfall, I was inspired by the recent Rocketboom video with Kenyatta Cheese, describing the steps to...
View ArticleFair Use and Short Form Media
Questions sometimes arise about the fairness of a given use on Critical Commons. Although we cannot give specific advice (and we are unqualified to give legal advice of any kind!), it is worth thinking...
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Critical Commons on Educause Live!
The webcast recording of Steve's presentation to Educause Live! on February 25, 2011 just went online. Although the title of the talk, "The Future of Fair Use" may have been a bit oversold, it was an...
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Critical Commons on Inside Higher Ed
Steve's talk on fair use for Educause Live! last month was picked up by Rodney Murray for his monthly podcast at Inside Higher Ed, "The Pulse." Murray nicely excerpted and highlighted parts of the talk...
View ArticleCritical Commons 2.0 is live!
Thanks to the extraordinary efforts of our project manager Anna Helme, Creative Director Erik Loyer and site developers, the Greek software collective and Plumi Jedi, UnWeb.me, Critical Commons 2.0 is...
View ArticleCenter for Social Media releases Code of Best Practices for Research Libraries
The Center for Social Media has released a new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. This new code, which joins the suite of other fair use codes, was developed by...
View ArticleCenter for Social Media releases Code of Best Practices for Research Libraries
The Center for Social Media has released a new Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries. This new code, which joins the suite of other fair use codes, was developed by...
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Image sound relations from Jeremy Butler
This series of clips presents a Do-it-Yourself Sound Exercise from Jeremy Butler's book Television: Critical Methods and Applications. A 2-minute, public-domain TV commercial (circa 1960) is combined...
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Anita Sarkeesian's Feminist Frequency
Feminist cultural critic Anita Sarkeesian produces an ongoing series of video commentaries from a feminist/fangirl perspective at FeministFrequency.com. This collection of video clips and commentaries...
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