Welcome to ScreenSite
ScreenSite facilitates the teaching and research of film/TV/new media and is designed principally for educators and students.
But everyone is welcome!
ScreenSite first emerged in 1994 during the Paleolithic era of the Web. In 2003 we mounted a major renovation. After a technical issue took us down in June 2006, we decided to overhaul the site once again.
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Fair Use of Screen Shots in Sony Vs. Bleem |
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Fair Use
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Friday, 24 October 2008 |
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I don't know how I missed this court case before. Back in May 2000, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit made an important ruling about screen shots and fair use. Essentially, the court said that screen shots from video games qualify as fair use. This is great news for those of us who use screen shots from film and television in our critical work as it sets a precedent for the fair use defense of them.
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Frame Grabs and Shot Logging |
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Fair Use
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
Many months ago, I sent around a query asking everyone I could think of how best to log individual shots from a video source. Since then I've noodled around with a variety of solutions to my problem and come up with a near-perfect way to handle this.
I'll insert my findings into my original note below, but the executive summary may be found if you...
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ScreenLex Pronunciation Guide |
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Education
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Monday, 19 February 2007 |
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A pronunciation guide for film/TV studies has just been released.
ScreenLex contains pronunciations of key phrases and people's names from the disciplines of film studies and television studies. Its items are available in three ways:
- As a podcast. Download them to your iPod or other mobile-audio device.
- Online: Listen to them online at screenlex.org using a Flash-based player.
- As a downloaded MP3 file.
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Professors Permitted to Break Copy-Protection on DVDs |
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Fair Use
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Written by Jeremy Butler
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Friday, 24 November 2006 |
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Finally, some good news on the fair-use front.
The U.S. Copyright Office has just announced six new exemptions to copyright law. One of them permits professors to break copy protection on DVDs in order to make compilations to use in class.
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