Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video

Link to summary and full report of Center for Social Media's "Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video".

Excerpt:
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.

About:
The Center for Social Media showcases and analyzes strategies to use media as creative tools for public knowledge and action. It focuses on social documentaries for civil society and democracy, and on the public media environment that supports them. The Center is part of the School of Communication at American University.

The report discusses the following 6 best practices using the following 3-part format: description, prinicple, limitation.
1. Commenting on or critiquing of copyright material.
2. Using copyrighted material for illustration or example.
3. Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally.
4. Reproducing, reposting, or quoting in order to memorialize, preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon.
5. Copying, reposting, and recirculating a work or part of a work for purposes of lauching a discussion.
6. Quoting in order to recombine elements to make a new work that depends for its meaning on (often unlikely) relationships between the element.