Copyright & Documentary Film in the Commonwealth: Legal Scholar Reports from Six Countries
Friday, April 24th, 2009American University Washington College of Law’s Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP) in conjunction with the Center for Social Media at American University (CSM) is releasing a series of papers by copyright experts entitled Copyright & Documentary Film in the Commonwealth: Legal Scholar Reports from Six Countries.
The papers cover the extent of fair use or fair dealing exceptions to copyright applicable to documentary filmmakers in Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Canada and Australia. The papers cover the extent of fair use or fair dealing exceptions to copyright applicable to documentary filmmakers in Uganda, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Canada and Australia.
Read the press release.
The commissioned papers and their abstracts are available here.























