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    San Francisco actress and filmmaker Joan Chen enjoys a screening at a Japanese film noir retrospective at Spain’s San Sebastian International Film Festival September 25 after finishing her stint as... more

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    This venerable North Bay Film Festival opens Thursday with Larry Charles and Bill Maher’s Religulous along with Gina Prince-Bythewood’s The Secret Life of Bees, and continues for 10 days with... more

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"Using copyrighted images for social commentary:" Jeff Koons (b. 1955), Niagara, 2000, Oil on canvas, 120 x 168", Commissioned by the Deutsche Bank AG in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, DGT132.2000, © Jeff Koons.

The 6th Screen

What's fair is not foul

SF360.org editor’s note: This is the first installment of a new, monthly column by filmmaker and journalist Hannah Eaves on local digital media.

Earlier this month the Center for Social Media (CSM) and the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) at American University released a report called Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video or, as it was immediately zeitgeisted by boingboing, "HOWTO Make online videos without getting sued." For techies in the online world, "fair use," Creative Commons and net neutrality occupy the same level of heaven as bizarre sea creatures, steampunk gadgets and cryptozoology. But the paper also makes a very handy tool for ordinary Joes experimenting in the new creative freak zone of User Generated Content.

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