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Of Memes and Media Takedowns

Sunday May 02, 2010 Posted in: Updates  | Tagged in: Hitler 

Reflections on automated takedowns, fair use and the Hitler meme

H5's Logorama: Best Animated Trademark Dilution

Friday March 12, 2010 Posted in: Updates  |

H5's amazing Logorama has won the Oscar for Best Animated Short film in spite of appropriating hundreds of trademarked logos

Lessig on Fair Use

Friday March 12, 2010 Posted in: Updates  | Tagged in: lessig 

In recent talks for the TEDxNYU conference and Open Video Alliance, Lawrence Lessig articulates a hopeful future for fair use.

Critical Commons at Open Video Alliance

Wednesday December 23, 2009 Posted in: Updates  | Tagged in: fair use 

Steve's "lightning talk" at the Open Video Alliance conference

Center for Social Media Publishes New Code of Best Practices in OCW

Sunday October 25, 2009 Posted in: Updates  | Tagged in: CSM  Best Practices  OCW  fair use 

This groundbreaking guide offers insights and solutions to some of the most vexing problems of using copyrighted materials in online educational resources.

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  • A screenshot from the discussion of Chaplin's The Great Dictator in Deleuze and Culture
    Deleuze and Cinema

    A graduate seminar on Deleuze and Culture taught by Kara Keeling at USC

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