Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video -- Publications -- Center for Social Media at American University

This document is a code of best practices that helps creators, online providers, copyright holders, and others interested in the making of online video interpret the copyright doctrine of fair use. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted material without permission or payment under some circumstances.

I like the principles but will the big wigs accept it? It does explain why some shirts are blurred in music videos. They did not receive permission to advertise the logos and it was not a spur of the moment video shoot. Anything accidentally shown can be put under fair use. The BIG point is that copyrighted material should be ok when it is for a "Discussion" or instruction. Hmmm, going by this should get You Tube off the hook with Viacom. Right?