6/22/2016 0 Comments Fair Dealing / Fair UseWhile searching for the hashtag #copyleft, I found a video about Fair Use (Fair Dealing in Canada). It's by Tara Hunt, and you can see it in its entirety below. After checking out the video, I went to her Youtube account and found several videos that sounds extremely good to watch... a lot about Social Media and spreading information. I subscribed to her so I can come back later... if you want to do the same, you can do it here. According to Fair Dealing, using others' intellectual products in our work is legal under certain circumstances, even without permission. This includes video clips. There are a few rules to follow, but basically, we can reuse these bits as long as it is used for education (Wooo Hoo), research, parody, a review, satire, criticism and private studies, and as long as we don't use more than 10% of the copyrighted material in our work.
I think the whole point is the purpose of the modified videos you produce -- as long as you don't make money directly, you are ok. In fact, it's even OK to monetize the video if you are a small fish; but the bigger the distribution and profit, the more likely it would be for the material to fall outside of fair use, because one of the criteria, which is probably the most important, is -- by using the material, are we somehow taking profits from the original copyright owner? If all you do is get little clips of copyrighted material (less than 10% of the original work) and blend these with your own work, then you would probably fall under the fair dealing category. In fact, I would agree with Tara when she says that this would probably affect the copyright owner positively, as people may like the little clip so much, they may look for the whole video. After checking out copyleft and understanding a little more the difference between something that is copyrighted and something that is part of the creative commons, I found this little video helpful in helping me walk the blurry line between copyright infringement and fair use as an educator. :)
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