Using cartoons for experimenters

[Brian MacWhinney]

Dear Aliyah,

     You may find this page from UC on fair use and educational use helpful.

http://copyright.universityofcalifornia.edu/fairuse.html

For segments of media from commercially-availabe videos, you may wish to purchase a copy of the video to further back up claims of fair use.  However, if you incorporate these materials into assessments used outside of your own lab, I think you would be violating the copyright law.

Getting overt permission from broadcasters and movie companies is not easy.  

--Brian MacWhinney

On Jan 25, 2014, at 6:14 PM, Aliyah MORGENSTERN <aliyah.morgenstern at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Infochilders,
> 
> Does anybody know if it is totally legal to use 2 minute extracts of cartoons such as "The egg and Jerry" (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera 1956) for experiments or language assessments with children (production of narratives for example)? If not, how can we obtain permission for non commercial use? Has anybody gone through the procedure? It is of course easy to download from the net, which does not mean it's legal.... 
> 
> Best,
> Aliyah
> 
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