Let’s share stories about how we’re facing the copyright challenge in a multi-platform era for journalism—especially in the stickier areas of music and video. We’re much better at asserting our free-speech right of fair use than we know—except when we think about it! Early results from a McCormick Foundation-funded, Center for Social Media study on how journalists think about fair use and copyright in relation to free speech will trigger our discussion.

Prof. Pat Aufderheide runs the Fair Use Free Speech project at American University.