n Communication
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Professor Joseph Turow

– September 30 – No class, but read material and study PowerPoint.

n Aim of the class

n Government, law
and the media : Complexities in the New Media World

n The Government & Media

n Setting of boundaries

n Should Google be regulated?

n Legal Policy
in the Virtual World

n Can people challenge a virtual world’s EULA if it appears to be interfering with their desire to make the most of that world?

n Copyright and Piracy

n Should we criminalize so many people?

n Lawrence Lessig on “reviving the read-write culture” through user-generated content.

n Artists and creators embrace the use of their material by others.

n Business must embrace the ecology of free-er content so “more free” can compete with “less free.”

n His “creative commons” approach.

n In the “professional” realm

n Difficulties for artists, academics

n Eyes on the Prize in DVD

n Prime Time Doctors clips

n Copyright in 21st century

n “Fair Use”

n Amount used

n Purpose – commercial or non-commercial

n Does it make the original less valuable?

n Transformational use

n Video Best Practices

n Commenting on or critiquing of copyrighted material

n Using copyrighted material for illustration or example

n Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally

n Reproducing, reposting, or quoting in order to memorialize, preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon

n Quoting in order to recombine elements to make a new work that depends for its meaning on (often unlikely) relationships between the elements.

n Importance of proportionality