Alice in InfoLand

as per the 5/18/07 article by Mat Homan on Wired: *Hijacked Disney Characters Explain Copyright: “Disney lawyers’ heads must be spinning over this one. A movie posted on Stanford University’s site called “A Fair(y) Use Tale*” mashes up all your Disney favorites to humorously and effectively explain copyright law. The ten minute movie, directed by Eric Faden, came out of Stanford University’s Fair Use Project Documentary Film Program. Stanford’s Fair Use Project—to which Stanford Law professor, Copyright guru, Creative Commons advocate and Wired writer Lawrence Lessig contributes—was founded last year to “support to a range of projects designed to clarify, and extend, the boundaries of fair use in order to enhance creative freedom.” And, well, the movie is damn sure creative, and certainly seems to take the boundaries of fair use about as far as they can go.”
FYI: Eric Faden teaches Film Studies at Bucknell University.This 10 minute video can be viewed online at Stanford Law School’s Center for Internet and Society or YouTube , and is also available on DVD from The Media Education Foundation

Ironically, the video is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License, which must be driving the Disney lawyers nuts, since the Walt Disney Company is extremely protective (to the point of ridiculousness) about allowing anyone (like, say, a library) to use any of their images anywhere (on a program flyer or mural, perhaps) without prior permission and payment. (BTDT, can you tell?)