Determining Fair Use for Online Video

The Center for Social Media just released their latest project - A Code of Best Practices for Online Video. The results of their work is truly exceptional - helping to define acceptable approaches for user-created video.

The team involved with this project (members such as Mimi Ito, Henry Jenkins and Jennifer Urban) are extremely savvy -- not only the biz and legal takes in the online video space, but also of the content itself. Its an extremely well-rounded group, so their perspectives and experiences bring an unprecedented heft to the findings.

I haven't poured through the entire document yet (PDF), but having had some conversation with the team around Machinima in light of fair use makes things look pretty optimistic.

Congrats to the Code of Best Practices committee! I look forward to hearing more about their work in the coming future.