Copyright, Fair Use and the Digital Generation
Welcome to my blog.
I take a keen interest in copyright and it place/validity in the new media. I thought I would start my Blog with a post on this issue.
Created by a United States law professor this video attempts to deal with the serious issue of copyright and new media in a humorous manner.
Lee Rainie presented statistics that 55% of people aged 8-18 do not care much whether what they download is copyright or not. It is diffuculty to impart the importance of copyright on “Digital Natives” when the wholesale use of other people’s work for derivation is key to our culture. Is there any place for copyright and other proprietry rights in the new media.
As a person who is actively involved in digitising, preserving and contributing public domain works to the Internet Archive’s Feature Films and Classic TV archives, I understand the power of a strong public domain. When copyright expires the item becomes part of our collective cultural heritage, freely available to be the basis of a new work.
With the international legal trend towards increasing copyright terms, it seems unlikely that areas such as the public domain will be strengthened in the near future, even though the commercial shelf life of the vast majority of of copyright protected items is less than a decade.
August 5th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
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