Insurers Start to Recognize "Fair Use"
In the stuggle to determine the application of "fair use" in the digital age, an insurance company has taken note of educational use and may be leading the filmmaking industry down an "open" road.
As Berkman Alum William McGeveran notes, American University's "Center for Social Media and the Program on Intellectual Property in the Public Interest, prepared a fantastic joint report [PDF] a few years ago highlighting this problem, and then followed it up with action: they gathered documentary filmmakers’ groups to draft a Statement of Best Practices."
From this, an error and omissions (E&O) insurer has just adapted their policy to include such exceptions that previously had been considered uninsurable.
Read more at The Info/Law blog.
As Berkman Alum William McGeveran notes, American University's "Center for Social Media and the Program on Intellectual Property in the Public Interest, prepared a fantastic joint report [PDF] a few years ago highlighting this problem, and then followed it up with action: they gathered documentary filmmakers’ groups to draft a Statement of Best Practices."
From this, an error and omissions (E&O) insurer has just adapted their policy to include such exceptions that previously had been considered uninsurable.
Read more at The Info/Law blog.