Workshop: ‘Fair Use’ - Filmmaker's right to Use copyrighted Material

Date:     11^th & 12^th December 2009 

Venue: “SAB World Of Beer” Conference

              Venue, in Newtown,

Time:    9:30 for 10am – 5pm  

Cost:     WoS and DFA members - Free,

               Non-members - R80 (for both days)

RSVP & Register here  by 8^th Dec 09

Too often documentary filmmakers ability to communicate effectively is restricted by an overly rigid approach to copyright compliance. Copyrighted archive is often prohibitively expensive.

The two-day workshop conducted by leading global experts from the USA and South Africa will show how South African filmmakers can use and expand users’ rights under South Africa’s copyright law.

These are rights to use copyrighted material in the creation of new works without license from the copyright holder under certain circumstances.  

The project points to a concrete solution – that filmmakers have rights that we can learn to use. This workshop will show how South African filmmakers can move towards achieving the basic principles in law to which ‘Fair Use’ applies and how these can be achieved in a similar way to what has been achieved in the USA.

From this workshop we aim to start a movement to adopt 'Fair Use' best Practices as done in the USA - whereby in time, it may enable Documentary filmmakers to access copyrighted material (Archive, music, photos) at no cost provided it's used fairly

Target Audience

The target audience for this event is primarily documentary filmmakers:

Producers, directors, writers and journalist. However we encourage Producers of ALL genres to attend. 

Workshop will Feature

Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law, Author of Copyright Law (2006) and Director of the Fair Use and Public Media Project.

Sean Flynn, Associate Director, Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property, American University Washington College of Law

Margaret Brown, Independent Filmmaker - Director of 'The Order Of Myths'

Andrew Rens, Intellectual Property Fellow, Shuttleworth Foundation, Legal Lead for Creative Commons South Africa, co-founder and director of The African Commons Project

Freddy Ogterop, Visual History Archive, University of Cape Town and Author of Audiovisual Audit Report: The South African Liberation Struggle

Eve Rantseli, Executive Officer Women of the Sun and Vice-chairperson SASFED

Marc Schwinges, Treasurer DFA & Head of Communications SASFED and Independent Producer - Underdog

(Preferably)
Bank: Nedbank, 
Acc no: 1916 074804
Branch: Killarney
Alternatively, pay at the door  

Seminar : Alternative funding methods

Date: Monday 23rd November 2009
Venue: Atlas Studios
Time: 10am – 2pm
Cost: Women R 100.00, Men R 200.00
RSVP: Friday, 20th Nov 2009

This seminar will demonstrate that the SABC eminent decrease in local productions (Crisis) does not spell the end of filmmaking for young producers - It's not all doom and gloom as perceived by many filmmakers and in fact, there may be some hope. It is possible to make films without the contribution of the SABC. Even where the SABC is the corner stone financier, filmmakers need to know how to bring more value into the productions.

The aim for this seminar is to introduce young producers to fundraising:

• sensitise producers to possibilities of alternative financial/funding models,
• show ways to make filmmaking a sustainable business,
• provide information that producers can put to use immediately 

This seminar will cover:

• How and what is required to access other government funding i.e. NFVF, DTI, IDC, and SARS 24F (Kevin Fleischer)
• What international funding is available and how to access it - How to use film festivals and Markets most effectively  (Dezi Rorich)
• Sponsorship - how you go about acquiring it, at which stage of the production, and how that works with the different broadcaster (Preean Armugan)
• Other funding models 

Understanding Broad-Based BEE (B-BBEE) Compliance

The Workshop

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