1. On the report from American: This is the first time I have been disappointed with a report or set of recommendations that American has put out. The usually amazing cast of academics that worked on these recommendations wrote a short document that does little to help online video creators.

The text of the document reads like a law school exam and was clearly not reviewed by your average UGC video creator to see if it makes sense or if it is useful. Many of the recommendations appear to be pulled from the documentary film maker principles with little regard for the different audience.

I hope the report is rewritten in a more useful manner to average users.

2. fair use: Fair use is more then the 4 factors, fair use is the codification of the 1st Amendment in the copyright act. PS Israel has fair use also, it will be interesting to see how the courts interpret it there.

3. Post #1 wrongly quotes section 107, the languge is: "for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright."

The term "such as" gives examples but does not limit uses to the list.

Good to here you are in Seattle. I will make it one of the readings, Hopefully with a few other Students for Free Culture members.

Great book my wife, who works for ACLU, was handing out photo copies of it a few weeks ago, it went over well with our friends.