Cute video from the CCC
The Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) has posted a free basic video on copyright at http://216.183.190.29/. It’s geared towards corporate clients, but I think that it’s pretty good for others too: cute, catchy, and more balanced than I had expected. It provides brief explanations of copyright, public domain, and fair use.
I posted a link rather than embedding the video in this post, because their license agreement allows for posting on a corporate intranet, but seems to disallow including it here. The other aspect that I found discouraging is that they didn’t include a publication date. Strictly speaking, this may not be necessary, because they are licensing the video, which trumps copyright, but of all places, the CCC should understand the importance of a publication date and should include it.
