American University’s Center for Social Media, along with the school’s Washington College of Law, has recently released this interesting study: Recut, Reframe, Recycle: Quoting Copyrighted Material in User-Generated Video.

The afore-linked-to summary of the study does a great job of breaking down - and providing examples of - the many faces of fair use.

It also uses one of my personal favorite terms: “participatory media.” The creative (and occasionally brilliant) ways people have found to “talk back” to the content that is handed down to them never cease to amaze me.

Similarly, the ways in which corporate interests try to shut that dialogue down never really surprise me.

[via Sivacracy]