Bonus Episode: Patricia Aufderheide and Fair Use

In this bonus episode, Bart interviews Patricia Aufderheide, of American University’s Center for Media & Social Impact, about how she first developed the guidelines for “fair use,” those rules whereby documentary filmmakers place footage from other sources in their films without fear of lawsuits. It’s one of the most important developments in the nonfiction filmmaking worldof the last 20 years, and Aufderheide made it happen. This is her story.   Films and Texts Mentioned: Best Practices in Fair Use manual (American University, School of Communication, Center for Social Media) Documentary Film: A Very Short Introduction, by Patricia Aufderheide (Oxford University Press, 2007) Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats & Rhymes / 2006 (Director: Byron Hurt) Rat Film / 2016 (Director: Theo Anthony)   Timestamps: 00:40 - Intro 06:58 - Interview with Patricia Aufderheide 30:40 - Closing   Website/Email: www.fogoftruth.com [email protected]   Credits: Artwork by Hilary Campbell Intro music by Jeremiah Moore Editing by Christopher Llewellyn Reed Transitional music by BELLS (thanks to Christopher Ernst)