A comic book about copyrights
Now this is clever. The Herald Sun of Durham, SC, reports about a comic book that's meant to help filmmakers understand and learn about copyrights for their works!
DURHAM -- Will a spiky-haired, camera-toting super-heroine vanquish the monster of copyright greed and restore decency and common sense to the world of creative endeavor?Well now, that's certainly making good use out of the comics medium! Congratulations to the filmmakers for that.
Tune in next month, when the tireless trio of Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins unleash what they believe is the first-ever comic book to explicate a vexing area of law for filmmakers.
"Bound by Law?" is drawn by Aoki and co-written with Duke Law School professors Boyle and Jenkins. Jenkins is the director of Duke Law's Center for the Study of the Public Domain, and Boyle is a faculty co-director.
The 66-page book is aimed at helping documentary filmmakers navigate the treacherous waters of copyright law, especially its fair-use doctrine, under which excerpts of copyrighted works may be used without permission in limited circumstances.
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The comic book format puts what could be a dry legal discussion into a quick and humorous format that is itself a work of art, she said. The book itself exercises the fair-use doctrine in a romp through popular culture.
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The book will be released in mid-March through Amazon.com for $5.95 and on the center's Web site for free.
