7D. Motion pictures that are lawfully made and acquired from DVDs
protected by the Content Scrambling System and Blu-Ray discs protected by
Advanced Access Content System, or, if the motion picture is not reasonably
available on DVD or Blu-Ray or not reasonably available in sufficient
audiovisual quality on DVD or Blu-Ray, then from digitally transmitted video
protected by an authentication protocol or by encryption, when circumvention is
accomplished solely in order to incorporate short portions of motion pictures
into new works for the purpose of fair use, and when the person engaging in
circumvention reasonably believes that circumvention is necessary to obtain the
motion picture in the following instances: (1) documentary filmmaking; OR (2)
fictional filmmaking.
7E. Motion pictures that are lawfully made and acquired from DVDs
protected by the Content Scrambling System or, if the motion picture is not
reasonably available on or not reasonably available in sufficient audiovisual
quality on DVD, then from digitally transmitted video protected by an
authentication protocol or by encryption, when circumvention is accomplished
solely in order to incorporate short portions of motion pictures into new works
for the purpose of fair use, and when the person engaging in circumvention
reasonably believes that circumvention is necessary to obtain the motion picture
for multimedia e-book authorship.
Jim Morrissette,
Technical Director, Kartemquin Educational Films. Proponent for proposed Class 7 D. Screen capture: stuttering, dropped frames
that can never be replaced because they were never recorded. Not acceptable for
public broadcast. Audio sync: lags
behind. Vast majority use Macs; latest
Macs don’t allow screen capture when playing DVD or iTunes media. Not a workaround that we can work with.
Smartphone capture. Aliasing: when the dots on the screen don’t
align with the dots of the recording device. Specifically forbidden by the
latest public TV tech specifications: must be free of artifacts such as those
associated with scanning.
Hardware solutions are also
impossible because the hardware won’t allow it. Component outputs are
disappearing. Without analog source from
protected disk, the equipment is worthless.
Hardware scan conversion is also costly and complex, and doesn’t work
with HDTV. Kartemquin was able to use
the current exemption to pull clips from DVD for A Good Man. Public TV now
wants only HD, and they have a severe limit on any SD clips up-rezed through
analog etc.
Both alternatives proposed
won’t work for broadcast specifications.
We’d be rejected. Hardware
upconversion and scan are both very costly, require an engineer to operate,
degrade the image (creating image detail out of nothing with math tricks, not
HD).
Gordon Quinn,
Artistic Director, Kartemquin Educational Films. In support of proposed Class
7D for documentary filmmakers and the IDA. We produce for PBS, cable outlets,
theatrical release. We are rightsholders
and rights users. We are unusual in that
we do have a technical director with an engineering background; we are a
resource for the larger community. Morrissette
gets calls all the time: part of our mission to help others engage in fair use.
We are seeking this renewal
to preserve the fair use we reclaimed with the statement of best practices in
fair use. The Interruptors, just on Frontline, had plenty of fair use
clips. We just want it updated to deal
with new technical standards from broadcasts and theatrical presenters. Any solution that involves licensing,
managing copies, streaming—that involves us having to go and ask permission
from the people we may be critiquing, parodying, arguing about—any of that is
unacceptable. We are exercising a right:
it is important not to require permission.
Two examples of
close-to-original quality importance: A
Good Man: Bill T. Jones is talking over a fair use clip, he’s dancing, bare
to the waist. He says: He became very
aware that he was a black body viewed by white bodies. You can see the muscles
rippling, the sweat on his skin: every detail of this body. I need that quality to get the message
across. Another project about a major
film critic: who constantly argues that people should see films in theaters.
When we make our film, we need to be able to show the sensual and subtle
qualities of an image he’s talking about.
It has to be a high quality. Benefits
everyone who watches movies for this critic to take them inside his work and
help them read what’s happening. And we
have to meet the technical standards of PBS and theatrical presentations.
There are other films coming
out only on Blu-Ray or encrypted streaming. Important to get that.
3 years: no abuse. No case in which documentarians have
decrypted to engage in fair use and that’s ended in abuse. We care about piracy
too.
In a democracy, we need to be
able to comment and contextualize all the culture. There should be nothing off
limits, within the confines of fair use.
We live in a digital age; the quality of the image is more and more important. We have to be able to come close to that
quality in order to critique it.
Peter Brantley,
Director, Bookserver Project-Internet Archive.
In support of proposed Class 7E. Expertise
in books and new media; works on standards for ebooks, which have been recently
updated to support greater interactivity.
Rapid advances in ebook authoring tools have made it possible to create
multimedia books with relatively little technical expertise. Alternatives require financial resources they
mostly don’t have time, or result in deteriorated video quality that consumers
find inadequate. Alternatives don’t
work, especially for mobile display devices—they need very HQ content.
Ebooks started out as
translations of analog/print to digital. Authors are now being able to explore
new affordances, aided by increasing integration of ebook standards into web
standards. Epub3 is now being
coordinated with html5 to support HQ audio, video, and other features. Redium: render epub files directly in browser
without any other software necessary.
New tools are emerging, enabling drag and drop authoring of multimedia
content.
Licenses: doesn’t work; fees
and terms are structured for commercial use, not individual authors/users
seeking educational/informational uses.
Video quality expectations
are changing. Devices are improving;
video standards are changing. Browsers
have coalesced around a common standard.
H.264 supports HQ video, and next version will support even greater
HD. Beyond DVD.
Bobette Buster, Film Professor at USC, screenwriter, and producer. In support of proposed Class 7E. Edison thought films were like lightbulbs; DW
Griffith understood that storytelling was the key. I teach how you take an idea and do what
visionary filmmakers have learned to do.
You create a big idea by combining two colliding ideas. Showed clips from The Godfather and Toy Story 2. Emotional power created by
juxtaposition. Power of rhyme—Schindler’s List. Cinema is about the orchestration of
emotions: delight at industrial productivity to horror at industrial genocide.
I seek to make an ebook of my
course because it’s all about technical wonder.
Rebuffed by studios at every turn. Don’t return emails or phone calls. Once
they do, they quote high price, or say I have to reach every descendant of
everyone in the scene and the composer of the music. Even got a C&D.
She wants to make an ebook
that would allow her to communicate her life’s work. She’s tried to do this with 200 people/year
by teaching a course. Would like to be able to share it with thousands via
ebooks.
Alex Cohen:
documentary filmmakers/fictional filmmakers/ebook authors: First, there should
be no question that these are fair uses. Everyone agrees, for good reason.
These groups are supervised by conservative gatekeepers, the insurance
companies that monitor for fair use.
Filmmakers have statements of best practices and are rightsholders in
their own right.
For the ebook exemption, only
asking for DVD and digitally transmitted video. Capability of ebooks is at or
above Blu-Ray but we’re asking for the bare minimum to ensure effective fair
use.
Fair use discussed and shown by
Buster requires the ability to make nuanced and detailed analysis—when you need
to see the dust on the floor in Toy Story
2, that’s not possible without an exemption. No alternative is sufficient—expensive,
complicated, and don’t satisfy technical standards set by
distributors/broadcasters. A lot of
discussion about hardware scan conversion: Morrissette is at the top of his
field, over 40 years of experience; there is almost no one else in the US who
would know how to do what he does.
Filmmakers call him. That’s the
reality for the majority of filmmakers: they don’t have access to the knowledge
or financial wherewithal to use the alternatives.
If no exemption, only a
handful of filmmakers would be able to attempt fair use, and frequently they’d
fail broadcast standards. Same with ebook
authors.
Two small points about things
said at prior hearings: Morrissette briefly mentioned upconversion for CNN. CNN
broadcasts its own stuff and doesn’t have to meet the standards that a third
party like Kartemquin has to in order to get shown. The sources that allow upconversion are also disappearing.
Sending out a clip for
upconversion: we want to clarify that the tech standards for film festivals are
very different for distribution/broadcast—the latter are extremely stringent
and don’t generally allow upconversion.
Finally: when people do talk
to Morrissette, they end up giving up on the use because they don’t have his
resources and the alternatives can’t meet their needs.
Brendan Charney:
Screen capture is a broad term that covers many methods that operate within a
black box that users don’t understand and that can be automatically
updated. If the Office said screen
capture was an alternative, filmmakers wouldn’t know whether any given product
would violate the DMCA; many would fear crushing liability/sanctions—not worth
making fair use in a particular instance.
That’s exactly the harm this rulemaking is designed to prevent.
Licensing: forecloses
critical uses. Nearly every license has
a nondisparagement clause that prevents film criticism and other things allowed
by fair use. Even for noncritical uses, one license isn’t enough. Other
rightsholders can still bring DMCA claims. Most licenses contain standard clauses—the
license isn’t complete; may require licensee to receive permissions from all
others who might claim rights in the footage.
Congress created rulemaking in order to prevent licensing from
supplanting fair use.
Exemption won’t lead to
harm. Nobody has alleged any piracy
flowing from previous exemptions, or even confusion. The exemptions cover a
clearly defined group of responsible creators who themselves rely on copyright.
Dean Marks, on
behalf of AACS LA. Opponent of proposed Classes 7D, E, G and 8.
We haven’t seen AACS
protected works identified that are unavailable for noninfringing uses. Very small set of directors’ cuts are only
available on Blu-Ray. Ebook creators
didn’t specify Blu-Ray and we are just confirming they aren’t seeking an
exemption.
Alternatives for
documentarians: use the work on DVD.
They say SD doesn’t work in broadcasting standard, but the PBS website
says PBS will accept SD video and upconvert it.
It may well be that clips they seek to use aren’t available in HD—the Zapruder
footage, for example. Public TV stations
aren’t going to ban documentaries that include the Zapruder footage. For filmmakers who have the wherewithal to
obtain D&O insurance, we believe upconversion is not beyond their reach.
For filmmakers: unlike the
panel this morning, they typically have access to very high quality cameras
because they use them to shoot their films.
Displayed a clip from a Panasonic $28,000 camera, available on eBay for
half that. Video capture is acceptable
for educators, but we wouldn’t expect them to have high end cameras, as people
making HD films do. Camcording is a
perfectly reasonable alternative.
Clip licensing. We believe that the studios have really made
incredible progress in making clip licensing easier. Universal has an online
site. WB regularly responds to clip
requests within 48 hours. We appreciate that critical/disparaging uses often
are barred by license provisions, so it isn’t the answer for every use, but we
believe it shouldn’t be dismissed out of hand as not viable.
For documentary filmmakers:
National Film Archives in College Park—filmmakers can go in and access the
archives and create a good copy by using AV cables, permitted by the Archives.
Tamsin Rawady, A
Practical Guide to Fair Use, available at proponents’ website: said she
ended up mastering from a variety of materials, including VHS and low-quality
downloads—typical to access many materials of various qualities to put together
a final product. In a few cases, she
decided to pay for licenses to clips that were fair use simply to get the HQ
master. Studios work with filmmakers to
deliver most useful format.
Don’t confuse fair use and
access controls. A no objection letter
may say you may need rights from musicians/performers; we’re not objecting to
your use. Talent rights have nothing to do with access control measures. If you’re confident your use is fair, you don’t
need to seek consent from the underlying talent. So a no objection letter saying that there
might be talent rights shouldn’t be any problem for you.
Blu-Ray is new and deserves
special protection. Growing but DVDs are
still king. Augurs for caution in
granting exemptions.
Bruce Turnbull,
Counsel for DVD CCA. Opponent of
proposed Classes 7A-G and 8.
DVD-CCA doesn’t object to
renewal of documentary exception, but does object to fictional and ebook
exemptions. Likelihood that a use is fair
in the broad categories described: more likely in documentary. To have broad
exemption for all fictional films would invite the possibility that the uses
wouldn’t be fair. We don’t believe it’s
been demonstrated that a sufficiently high number would be fair use. The same is true with ebooks. The experience is much less because this is
new. We don’t believe the numbers of
uses put forward in the broad category would necessarily lead to a high percentage
of those uses being fair. (Comment: This
isn’t the standard adopted by the Copyright Office, which is a substantial
number of fair uses.) We also think
filmmakers can hire videographers with expensive cameras so you don’t even need
to own a $20,000 camera. Similarly,
video capture software can work for some purposes.
Steve Metalitz, MSK, representing Joint Creators and
Copyright Owners. Opponent of Classes
7A-G and 8. Important to distinguish
among types of uses now covered by a single exception, which represent distinct
cases. Are the uses that are intended to
be made in fact noninfringing? And if
that burden is met, are there alternatives available to people who wish to make
those uses that don’t involve circumvention?
Both are at issue here, but the mix is different.
Charney said this was fair
use because there are gatekeepers. This
overstates the case, but people with E&O insurance are more likely to be
fair use than the category proposed of someone making a documentary film or a
fictional film who reasonably believes circumvention necessary. Nothing in the
proposal requires safeguards like gatekeepers or E&O insurance. If that’s the basis on which this assertion
is made, should appear in the exemption.
There are others besides Morrissette who won’t be intimidated by difficulty
in tech, though I would be (comment: and as a lawyer and not an engineer, he might
possibly not be qualified to make that determination? Hollywood has a bad habit of assuming that
the tech can do whatever the lawyers would like it to do, see SOPA/PIPA.).
PBS as gatekeeper requiring
high quality: encourages Office to challenge that. If it were the case that
anything not native HD is banned, we’d lose a great deal of history.
Legislative history says
intermediaries are outside the scope of the rulemaking, so you shouldn’t
consider that anyway. (Sure, you can’t
change 1201 itself, so an exemption can’t exempt anything other than
circumvention itself. But it’s
ridiculous to say you can somehow evaluate the impact of the law on fair use
without taking the overall context of uses into account, including broadcast
standards. A fair use no one can make
helps no one.)
Ebooks: record is less well
developed both in terms of whether there’s an equivalent to the gatekeeping
that increases the chances that the use will be fair. This covers everybody, not just the uses we
were shown today which he has no problem with.
One thing we know has changed is that the alternatives have become more
robust: licensing (partial answer), screen capture and editing
technologies. That has to be taken into
account v. 3 years ago. But if you have
an exemption must define it so that it won’t include infringing uses.
Carson: what is Joint
Creators’ position v. DVD-CCA on the existing exemption?
Metalitz: we don’t think the
existing exemption should continue. Should
include gatekeeping safeguards if the proponents sitting at this table abide by
them.
Carson: is your position that
they haven’t met their burden or that there’s no need?
Metalitz: they haven’t met
their burden of showing a need.
Carson: with respect to
exemptions now in place, please react to building in additional gatekeepers.
Donaldson: you asked that
last time about insurance, and that won’t work—comes way too late in the
process. Wouldn’t work, isn’t
needed. The exemption has helped
literally hundreds of filmmakers make films that are more impactful, give
better messages, without any adverse impact.
Carson: E&O comes last
after the film is made—is that true?
Metalitz: true, but
realistically there is a risk of a lawsuit that you want to avoid. Unlikely that suits would be brought before
the film comes out, because the potential plaintiff wouldn’t be aware until
then. At that time, there either is or
isn’t insurance. If the producer hasn’t gotten insurance, that should be taken
into account. This isn’t a copyright
infringement lawsuit so it doesn’t have the same remedies (hunh? As I recall injunctions are available, which
is the death knell). So these aren’t
likely to arise unless a film is distributed.
Carson: yet in trying to
craft an exemption, you’re suggesting we come up with a conditional
exemption. The exemption is from
liability for the act of circumvention, which of course comes before E&O
review, and you don’t know the result.
Metalitz: but you have to
know what use you’re going to make: solely for short portions.
Carson: but you’re trying to
put in a requirement of future review, and that’s rather odd. Good faith intention to go to E&O? (What if, for example, the E&O review
says “take out one clip” and you’re fine?
Is that clip now violating the exemption?) Fair use is a question of law, but what
should the factual prerequisite be? A postrequisite
strikes him as difficult.
Metalitz: reasonable
judgment; exemptions can have factual components. Wouldn’t be clear at the time whether you’re
entitled to the exemption, but if you’re in the business of making documentary
films, you’re probably going to seek insurance.
Marks: E&O insurance
doesn’t just review the final film; it’s an ongoing process. In Tamsin Rawady’s article about fair use
advice, she talks about how you need to consult with the lawyers as you’re in
the process of making a film not when it’s finished. Gatekeeping functions don’t all happen ex
post facto.
Donaldson: Last Sundance
festival, we had 19 films; 2 C&Ds prior to the first screening at
Sundance. The Queen of Versailles: subject of film ended up not liking the
description of him, and sued before it showed publicly based on publicity.
Sequencing of when you find out you have a problem is different. We had insurance for that, but for the other
one he didn’t have insurance—a black & white film that won’t have much
monetization.
We were involved early in
Rawady’s film, which was pre DMCA.
Before exemption we told people they couldn’t rip. If you look at that article, it’s about the
downside of fair use; producer goes on to describe those things as what she had
to do because she couldn’t rip the DVD.
Classic case of why the exemption is needed. Did end up running into resistance with some
techie who didn’t want to accept it because the degraded clips were too
numerous.
Carson: typically, when you
make a documentary destined for an E&O carrier, is there intermediate legal
review?
Donaldson: ideally, we like
to get in early at the concept stage and educate the filmmaker for his or her
particular film. December: when Sundance
announces, we get a flood of people who didn’t have an attorney and have just
been told that they need review.
Filmmakers made movies out of credit cards & family and friends and
didn’t have a spare nickel for insurance.
So some films—This Film is Not Yet
Rated and the Rawady film—have a lot of advance review, but that doesn’t
usually happen. Today, with this work
being better known, not quite 50/50; 60% of films come in late in the game.
Jack Lerner: Our point was
that we couldn’t make fair use because we couldn’t get HQ. If you require E&O at the outset, you end
up pricing out filmmakers who can’t afford that at an early stage or who make
fair use calls of their own that aren’t a problem. We have resources in the community—the statement
of best practices.
Quinn: Speaking for the
entire class: E&O can be good. But for 20 years we lost the right to use
fair use b/c of the aggressive tactics of content owners, writing C&Ds and
threatening to sue; never suing. But the
gatekeepers wouldn’t have it. We spent years talking to people—teachers,
broadcasters, insurers, lawyers—to reeducate them about the law. Finally we got some traction with PBS; we
didn’t have E&O insurance with PBS.
We’ve had no cases of abuse in the last 3 years. If you’re concerned
with filmmakers out there not making fair use, then go after them for
that. The problem with the DMCA is that
the mere act of acquiring something for legal use has been made illegal, so you
never get to test the question of fair use without the exemption. We can have E&O and still be sued; we
understand that. But if we can’t get
that into the courts, we’re screwed.
There are many kinds of documentaries, all kinds of new markets.
When do lawyers get
involved? Donaldson is right, but let’s
be clear: different filmmakers work with lawyers at different points. This
Film Is Not Yet Rated—yes, before we even start. But many films, including A Good Man and The Interruptors, involve classic fair use. I’m experienced; I get my letter near the end
of the process, when I’m in fine cut, because I’m confident that I’m making a
fair use. Other filmmakers may need
earlier. We do both kinds of things. We don’t need more stringent
gatekeepers. We need the exemption so
that when there are test cases we are discussing the proper issues.
Metalitz: no cases of
filmmakers accused of violating 1201.
Quinn: Yep.
Carson: resist having an
E&O/lawyer review requirement, even though it’s wise.
Quinn: exactly.
Carson: we have heard a lot
about how E&O/lawyers are important to control use. Should we ignore that?
Quinn: we’re talking about a
process. If I’m a filmmaker and the
piece I need is on a Blu-Ray to make my point, that’s my need. We’re talking about a right. I can’t tell you every filmmaker’s
needs. I can tell you that we’ve tried
to be very responsible with this exemption.
We are saying don’t confuse locking something up with fair use. We need the exemption to be able to use fair
use. We bring up E&O because we
understand most high-visibility documentaries, that’s the reality, but there
are important films playing a role in the range of information in our
democratic society that are fair uses without E&O/lawyers.
Cohen: we think E&O is
just one factor; statement of best practices; being rightsholders in their own
regard; it’s not all or nothing.
Charney: we’re not saying
that talent/contractual rights are the issue.
Anyone with a right protected by the Copyright Act can sue for a violation
of 1201—that makes it very hard to avoid via licensing. People whose recordings are used could
sue. If a filmmaker signs a license, often
obligates them to seek such other
licenses.
A page before the language
quoted from the legislative history, a very telling section: the harm is
flowing from the implementation of the tech protection measure. To measure
harm, we have to look at the facts confronted by fair users. Congress:
committee is concerned that market realities may someday result in less rather
than more access to works. They created
rulemaking as a failsafe to prevent that sort of harm.
Marks: that standard about
less access: we haven’t seen one shred of evidence that TPMs have led to less
access to copyrighted materials. In fact
there’s been a growth released into the market because of TPMs that give
copyright owners the security to release content.
Lerner: please read our
submissions, which discuss many such situations.
Ruwe: looking for a better
idea of what an ebook is. What is an
ebook? Anything multimedia?
Brantley: epub specification
is informally referred to as “website in box”—a set of constraints on html
display that limits what an author can do.
Epub3 can be embedded in browser.
Defined set of allowable behaviors.
Buster: What I’d like to do
is show salient points. Lerner/IDA have
done excellent job of educating the documentary community with specific
guidelines. I would use the discipline
of that in selecting clips.
Charney: p.3 of our initial
comments: we have a discussion of this.
Digital files capable of displaying written words on an electronic
reader, generally without internet access.
So we want to put them into a device that can display offline, which is
distinct from an online website even though it might be compatible. Difference is that underlying tech may have
come from web, but ebook is a discrete format.
Brantley: packaged as a zip
file. Uses html rendering tech, but is a packaged, portable digital file that
has to be downloaded and can be consumed offline.
Ruwe: sounds extremely broad.
Any narrowing principles?
Brantley: epub3 specification
is very specific and detailed about permitted type of behavior.
Charney: we’d be amenable to
narrowing definition to specific existing formats.
Ruwe: anything about
gatekeepers?
Lerner: nonfiction ebook
authors would use a lot of the same mechanisms to make sure they’re making fair
use. E&O is available; statement of
best practices applies very well in ebook context as well.
Donaldson: is the class
intended to be nonfiction?
Lerner: no, just an example.
Ruwe: more specifics about
requirements for distribution outlets for documentarians?
Morrissette: latest PBS tech
specifications: one is in the PowerPoint, which talks about artifacts. In the case of archival content where no
better copies are available, image still has to be free of artifacts. PBS recognizes existence of older source, but
they’re saying that you can’t just throw everything in YouTube quality and
upconvert it again.
Quinn: Working with PBS, the
reality is that if you have the Zapruder film they’re practical, but they’re
looking more and more for the overall look and feel to meet their standards. If
you have an image from a contemporary film, and that’s low quality, that’s not
going to be acceptable to them.
Morrissette: it was because
of the current exemption that we were able to get the quality necessary to pass
PBS muster a year ago. Without the
exemption, we couldn’t have done it. Speaking to the high quality camera: yes,
it looks better than the cellphone. Without the original to compare it, though,
my evaluation was that there was excessive overexposure.
Ruwe: for ebooks: Why wouldn’t
alternatives have worked for juxtapositions?
For some I get it: if you need to talk about the dust, okay, but what
about the rest?
Buster: I’m talking about
the highest level of filmmaking: you need to see his choices. Godfather is lit like a neo-Realist
film; you have to show costumes, music, sound design. I teach from the perspective of how tech
affects storytelling across elements and how the director employs a central
idea. I’d be laughed out of the room for
using a degraded copy to show what cinema does best.
Carson: In teaching, yes, but
that’s not germane to ebooks.
Buster: why would anyone want
to get a low quality book?
Carson: if that’s their only
alternative.
Buster: The alternative is
piracy; using high quality drives people to see the real film.
Charney: degraded images don’t
work better in ebooks than in the classroom.
Alternatives are cumbersome beyond belief. Have to hire a specialist, raise the money to
find the camera. Feels like I’d have to
get a new career, and I already have one as an educator. USC: we are constantly upgrading equipment. We don’t have the old equipment (with the
analog outputs, I take it).
Ruwe: non-objection letter—how
relevant?
Marks: studio issues no
objection letter; it’s correct that if an actor or musician who also had a
right in the film decided that they felt there was circumvention, they’d have
standing to sue if they chose. Hard to imagine that would really happen if the
underlying copyright owner issued a non objection letter. (Then why would the letter contain these
reservations and tell the recipient to get the permissions?)
Lerner: Standard
nondisparagement clauses; standard clauses obligate the filmmaker to get
permissions from these other people—the nonobjection letter says that they don’t
object if we get other permissions.
Marks: WB’s no objection
letter doesn’t contain nondisparagement provisions.
Lerner: that’s true, WB doesn’t.
Marks: not inconsequential
because WB has a big film library.
Carson: Best practices in
documentary filmmaking: does a filmmaker who follows those behave acceptably?
Metalitz: we have some
problem with them. Not sure that
everything in the statement has been done at the time the circumvention occurs,
so subject to the same objection.
Documentary filmmaking isn’t defined.
We heard this morning that student video production might qualify as a
documentary—would be helpful to sharpen and narrow it.
Carson: what if we required
compliance with best practices?
Donaldson: good idea.
Charney: it’s not a silver
bullet; best practices were meant to classify four categories that are as close
to certain as you can get, not meant to define the outer boundaries of fair
use.
Quinn: there are reasons why
implementation could have unintended consequences. We do use that document in schools, with
young documentarians. Not everything is
ok, and we have some guidelines of when you’re within fair use. Not a catastrophe, but needs to be thought
through very carefully.
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