Fair Use - Lauren

There are many examples of fair use that can be used to produce a film. Two that I would use are "Commenting or Critiquing" and "Launching Discussion". These would probably be the easiest ones to implement into a film because everyone critiques things whether they like to or not and it's easy to throw in your two cents about something you just watched. It would be a very simple thing to take bits and pieces of the work of someone else and make your own comments about it, and thus, launching a discussion.

A documentary is is recreating an actual event, era, or life story without adding anything fictional. Fair Use is so important to documentary film makers because their whole job consists of recreation. Every portion of Fair Use, applies to their business and every film that they make.Without Fair Use, there would be practically no fair footage to use. Documentaries would almost become impossible to make.


Peter Jaszie from the video on Fair Use states it perfectly when he says "Reality depends on its exercise. We must use it or risk losing it." I completely agree. If we don't exercise our right to use these materials, then in the future there will be no mashups. There will be no socumentaries. There will only exist media that uses their own, and nothing but their own, ideas and creations to fuel any upcoming creative projects. One example I found of someone exercising their rights is this video. Someone takes the footage of The Fugitive and Ferris Bueller's Day Off and mashes them into "The Fugitive's Day Off". It makes a very good, brave, high school student look like a fugitive of the law.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEYyrpvvWo