[FC-discuss] Movie nights and online streaming

Wed Jan 20 20:48:44 EST 2010

Just a quick question:

A registered society in University is allowed to have movie nights. A
copyrighted protected video is shown to a small public. Now, if I stream
it online without copying it, to the authenticated members of a given
society, does that constitute an infringement of the law? 

Ciao,
Andrea.

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> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 13:45:51 -0500
> From: Rich Jones <miserlou at gmail.com>
> Subject: [FC-discuss] Microsoft Asks Free Culture for Astoturfers and
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> Just got this, thought it was hilarious.
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> Anybody feel like infiltrating Microsoft's PR team? It's fun getting paid to
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> Rich
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:45:26 -0500
> From: Peter Olson <peabo at peabo.com>
> Subject: [FC-discuss] vids: remix from the '70s;
> 	transformativeworks.org
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> "Vids are fan-made music videos that involve the re-cutting and remixing
>   of footage from television shows or films. The history of vidding far
>   predates YouTube (2003) and contemporary "remix" culture; rather,
>   vidding dates from the 1970s, and is one of the many arts to have
>   emerged from Star Trek and subsequent media fandoms. Moreover, vidding
>   is particularly notable as a form of filmmaking primarily practiced by
>   women, perhaps because women dominate media fandom generally, or perhaps
>   because telling stories with extant footage has been one way to surmount
>   the bar which hinders women's entry into the expensive and
>   male-dominated film world.
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> "The Vidding History project of the OTW is committed to documenting and
>   celebrating the 35 year history of fan vidding. We believe that
>   noncommercial works, like vids, that make creative use of existing
>   copyrighted material are transformative, and that transformative works
>   are legitimate under US copyright law."
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> http://transformativeworks.org/projects/vidding-history
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> OTW: http://transformativeworks.org
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> "Transformative Works and Cultures is a peer-reviewed academic journal
>   that seeks to promote scholarship on fanworks and practices. The first
>   issue appeared on September 15, 2008.
> 
> "TWC is a Gold Open Access publication of the nonprofit Organization for
>   Transformative Works copyrighted under a Creative Commons
>   Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. TWC has been submitted
>   for indexing in all major academic databases, open access directories,
>   and services such as Google Scholar."
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> http://transformativeworks.org/projects/twc
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> peter
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