There is an outstanding effort being made to develop reasonable
standards for fair use in documentary media:
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse.htm
This effort has been endorsed by many professional organizations.
> Warner Brothers reportedly dropped its deal to distribute the film=
>
> STRANGERS WITH CANDY because it feared that posters and wall
> decorations
> had not been cleared completely=2E Kaufman quotes one production
> designer:=
>
> =93Any prop or proprietary item or copyrighted item is potentially a
> lawsuit=94=2E In these litigious circumstances, what is to be done=3F
One often sees in music videos a digital blur put over T-shirts and
other branded clothing, and digital blurs in various "reality" shows
like COPS to obscure bystanders, police who don't want to be
identified (often in a drug case), etc.
CHUCK KLEINHANS
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