A recent report titled "The Cost of Copyright Confusion for Media Literacy" notes that educators today have no shared understanding of what constitutes fair-use practices. The goal of this session is to address a range of issues related to the use of media in higher education classrooms, with a significant portion of time devoted to hands-on tutorials on acquiring and working with media from a variety of so ...

The launch of the IML's project Critical Commons, funded by a generous grant from the MacArthur Foundation's Digital Learning Initiative, will be announced at a press conference at the headquarters of the MacArthur Foundation in Chicago, April 16-17. Critical Commons is a non-profit advocacy coalition that supports the fair use of media in educational contexts, providing resources, information and tools for ...

With fear, uncertainty and misinformation dominating the discourse of copyright and intellectual property, Fair Use has become one of the most vexing issues in today's academic landscape. This day-long event at USC's Annenberg Research Park addresses these issues head-on with a series of presentations and discussions with key players in the advancement and redefinition of fair use, coupled with a faculty sh ...