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An interesting video I came across about the main issues concerning fair use, copyright, and video mashups. Highlights from my transcription below: We're seeing this blossoming of amateur cultures, video remixes and creativity, and a lot of these works are circulating on the Internet. Copyright law is all about balance........

A project by the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been created to help teachers provide accurate informations about the laws concerning digital rights & the concepts of copyright and piracy.

It has been recently announced by the Creative Commons Foundation that a new tool called CC Zero (or simply, CC0) is now ready to use; something very close to a "No Rights Reserved" concept. (continue...)

The Open philosophy as applied to movies & animations deals with three related concepts: * open, collaborative projects maintained by a community; * open source software; * the copyleft / public domain side of the digital rights spectrum.