Using Disney Characters to Teach Fair Use
Posted on May 24th, 2007 by Tim Armstrong
This clever video stitches together tiny snippets from more than two dozen Disney films in a ten-minute primer on the basics of federal copyright law and the fair use doctrine. The one-clip-per-spoken-word style is a little jarring and hard to follow at first (well, it was for me, at least), but you will become acclimated to it soon enough (it sometimes takes a few minutes before I can reliably follow the dialogue in British movies where the characters have very thick accents, too).
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Filed under: Copyright, Education & Copyright, Video
The concept is interesting, but it really shouldn’t take ten minutes to explain how copyright, fair use, and the public domain work.
I can’t imagine the long hours the author of this video must have put in to find all the words stitched together in this video. But perhaps a two minute video with a bit more text would have been more bearable than hearing three utterances of the word “right” repeated a hundred times over the course of 10 minutes.