Olivia Sutton's Fanfic Journal

Letting Us Rip: Our New Right to Fair Use of DVDs - ProfHacker - The Chronicle of Higher Education



OKay this is SO Awesome!!!!  Vidding is now DEFINATELY LEGAL folks!  I will present some quotes below, but ladies, break out the champagne and then get vidding -- because as the above article from Chronicle of Higher Ed points out -- if we don't exercise our right it will go away -- media conglomerates have a lot more weight than we do!

Quote:  "Motion pictures on DVDs that are lawfully made and acquired and that are protected by the Content Scrambling System [CSS] when circumvention is accomplished solely in order to accomplish the incorporation of short portions of motion pictures into new works for the purpose of criticism or comment, and where the person engaging in circumvention believes and has reasonable grounds for believing that circumvention is necessary to fulfill the purpose of the use in the following instances:

(i) Educational uses by college and university professors and by college and university film and media studies students;
(ii) Documentary filmmaking;
(iii) Noncommercial videos.
[Note: the term "motion picture" does not solely mean feature films—for the Library of Congress, it refers to "audiovisual works consisting of a series of related images which, when shown in succession, impart an impression of motion, together with accompanying sounds, if any." Hence, the term includes television, animation, and pretty much any moving image to be found on DVD.]"

In other words -- if you bought the DVD, and you are making a non-commericial  video, like a vid...

"Now I can show them the more straightforward way to rip clips without asking them to break the law for credit." --from ProfHacker

"Copyright activists have referred to fair use as a muscle that will atrophy if not exercised. The newest exemption ruling has provided a new exercise regimen for academics and other media users to employ, expanding the possibilities for fair use of video a wide range of contexts. Alas, unless we keep exercising this right, it will atrophy, as the Library of Congress will review its exemptions again in 2012 to rule whether the current balance is sufficient, or fair use should be further restrained or expanded. Scholars, users and organizations will continue to push for broader exemptions—such as including K-12 education as an allowed site of fair use..."

"Letting Us Rip:  Our New Right to Fair use of DVDs" by Prof. Hacker
Chronicle of Higher Ed.  Online Edition (Downloaded:  7/31/2010)

Get out there and vid Ladies!!!!

--Olivia