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  1. who had time to tweet during IDFA? What a spectacle. Here's my news: http://su.pr/831bMk
  2. Svein Prestvik from Norwegian public bdcaster archives: we need to make $, guard uses of our stuff.
  3. Lars Loge: I feel I have to clear everything. Our docs are character-driven. We often can't use "criticism and commentary."
  4. Lars Loge: As filmmaker, I'm clueless about copyright. It's tough to make a reasoned dcision on what to make.
  5. Panzer: Norwegian law allows quotation "under good practice." Like US, Norway has case/common law.
  6. Panzer: Sports rights are always contentious in Norway. (Oh yeah! and everywhere else too!)
  7. Norwegian lawyer Georg Panzer recalls lawsuit v Aqua by Mattel re "I'm a Barbie girl..."
  8. Hugenholtz: can't find hardly any EU litigation on documentary and copyright infringement.
  9. CCIA head in WSJ:Fair use= serious bsns. fair-use dependent bsns adds $2.2 trillion to US economy, and add 1 in 8 jobs. http://su.pr/66hHwy
  10. Hugenholtz: EU needs pricing control on the archives of public broadcasters.
  11. Hugenholtz: best practices at a national level are important, a big role for educations, and some for collecting societies.
  12. Hugenholtz recommends: a real EU copyright law. Harmonize limitations and exceptions. But that's long term.
  13. Hugenholtz: there's room for incidental, quotation, parody harmonization.
  14. Hugenholtz: Limits/exceptions in EU make "best practices" EU-wide impossible. You might set up a wish list.
  15. Hugenholtz: in EU, insurance not usually an issue for doc filmmakers. (True!)
  16. BUT... permissions culture in EU not as bad as in the US. Lower damages. Less fear of lawyers. Large public financing of culture.
  17. Fair use won't happen in EU anytime soon, it's not allowed under Copyright Directive, sez Hugenholtz. Plus exceptions often narrow interp.
  18. Good news from Germany: Play quotes from Brecht in big chunks. Highest court rejects copyright claims, in favor of "freedom of art."
  19. French court says: news story showed the whole painting, so that was infringing. Sigh. EC court agrees (sez, u cld have licensed).
  20. But you can learn from other cases. E.g. France2 reports opening of a theatre, shows interior, sued by a painting's owner...