UGC, Free Culture & CC for Film Students
- November 8th, 2010
- By Brian Rowe
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I am guest lecturing in Ingrid Mattson‘s Media Law and Ethics Film class at Seattle Central Community College tomorrow. Topics include; fair use, user generated content, remix, Creative Commons, Kickstarter and Free Culture issues. This is a smaller class with 19 students, the format will be less lecture and more interactive. We will be viewing recent online videos from the election and from remix artist while talking about the free speech and copyright issues around them. We will also cover “some rights reserved” licensing and tapping into the cognitive surplus to crowd source pieces of your own project including funding and shared content creation.
For those interested, here is the reading list of resources sent to the students before the class:
American’s Center of Social Media’s take on UGC & fair use:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-online-video
Microsoft & Disney’s take:
http://www.ugcprinciples.com/
EFF user rights perspective:
https://www.eff.org/issues/ip-and-free-speech/fair-use-principles-usergen
Best Practices for Documentary Film Makers:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fair-use/best-practices/documentary/documentary-filmmakers-statement-best-practices-fair-use
CC Videos:
New intro video
Intro video with more about copyright:
http://creativecommons.org/videos/get-creative
Kickstarter links:
The Guarani Project: a multimedia documentary about water in Latin America (example of a success)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theguaraniproject/the-guarani-project-a-multimedia-documentary-abou-0?pos=27&ref=ending-soon
Neil Gaiman’s The Price (new project larger budget)
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2024077040/neil-gaimans-the-price?ref=search
Cognitive Surplus: