Will Code of Best Practices help video mash-up artists?

At PBS’s MediaShift blog, Mark Glaser conducted a roundtable last week on import of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video released by the Center for Social Media at American University. (I wrote about it here.)

Participating were:

• Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, Washington College of Law, American University, Code of Best Practices co-chair
• Anthony Falzone, Lecturer, Executive Director, Fair Use Project, Stanford Law School
• Mizuko Ito, Research Scientist, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
• Rebecca Tushnet, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University
• Josh Metzger, senior VP, corporate development, Veoh Networks
• Francesca Coppa, Director of Film Studies and Associate Professor of English at Muhlenberg College
• JD Lasica, co-founder of Ourmedia, video blogger and social media expert
• Rx, video mash-up artist, ThePartyParty.com
• Owen Gallagher, digital media entrepreneur, founder of TotalRecut.com, for fans and creators of video remixes, recuts, and mash-ups.

Here’s the first part of his series: Will Code of Best Practices Help Video Mash-Up Artists Stay Legal? Writes Mark:

I convened an email roundtable to talk about the new Code of Best
Practices for Fair Use in Online Video — the idea being to show people
which ways they could use copyrighted video in their own remixes
without running afoul of the law. As JD Lasica, one of the roundtable’s
participants says: "It is important for users to know in broad terms
what they could
legally share or not — without having to attend law school at night."
This is Part 1 of a three-part series.

JD Lasica, founder of Inside Social Media, is also a fiction author and the co-founder of the cruise discovery engine Cruiseable. See his About page, contact JD or follow him on Twitter.