Re: Commercial films in training?

On 7/16/99, Steven Jamar <sjamar[_at_]law.howard.edu> wrote:
>
> The harder fair use question comes from those who use snippets from a
> film - a five minute bit of a 2 hour film - to illustrate a point in
> a 2 hour training session. Is that fair use? Using a New Yorker (or
> other) cartoon in such a setting is probably not - you are using the
> whole thing and can get permission.

In fact the New Yorker has set up a Web site to make it relatively easy to get permissions for training and similar presentations, see http://www.cartoonbank.com/ (it's fun to browse, independent of the copyright angle).

John Muller
johnmuller[_at_]earthlink.net
jmuller[_at_]brobeck.com
"The ladder of law has no top and no bottom" Received on Mon Jul 19 1999 - 03:31:19 GMT