Entertainment & Sports
Aug. 7, 2015
Filmmakers must be free to exercise fair use rights
It happens every day: To illustrate a point, a filmmaker needs to use archival material contained on a commercial DVD - but it's illegal to access it. By Christopher L. Perez
It happens every day. A filmmaker is in the late editing stages of creating her film,
which documents a real life event. To illustrate a point that's being made in her
film, she needs to use archival material contained on a commercial DVD. She is critical
of the archival material, meaning she won't be able to license it from the copyright
holder. Consequently, while she wo...
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