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Social-Issue Docs at #SXSW2018

March 23, 2018

Documentaries of all kinds—including the expectable presold and slotted music docs, liquor-brand docs, sports docs—proliferated at SXSW 2018

Platform Anxiety at SXSW

March 16, 2018
by Patricia Aufderheide

The sky is black with chickens coming home to roost for the platforms and apps that once loved to launch at SXSW.

Diversity Begins to Scale at SXSW

March 16, 2018
by Patricia Aufderheide

SXSW seemed to take diversity more seriously than in the past. There were more women on panels and keynoting...

Fair Use Question of the Month: Fair Use & YouTube

February 28, 2018
by CMSI editorial staff

I am a YouTube addict who dabbles in video making of my own. I’m worried though as some of my videos have included copyrighted material.

Happy Fair Use Week! And Where to Find the Good Stuff

February 27, 2018
by Emily O'Connell

Happy Fair Use Week celebrated by CMSI and so many other organizations!

Rethinking Fair Use: Rebekah Modrak and the Art of Creative Critique

February 27, 2018
by Emily O’Connell

Rebekah Modrak, a visual artist and teacher at the University of Michigan, employs fair use to make better art.

Fair Use in Film Courses: Broderick Fox on Empowering Creators

February 26, 2018
by Emily O’Connell

A documentarian and professor at Occidental College, fair use is a necessary ingredient for teaching aspiring filmmakers.

Preserving Software Could Get Easier: The Latest Center Research

February 13, 2018
by Emily O’Connell

Digital culture depends on software. But software preservation is in crisis. Software archivists struggle with copyright law.

Center Research Reaches Australian Policymakers

February 12, 2018
by Emily O’Connell

Australian copyright law has extremely narrow exceptions and US. copyright law has an outsized presence in debates about copy right reform.

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