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Where’S The Fair Use? Participatory Culture, Creativity, And Copyright On Youtube, Joseph Daniel Barden
Where’S The Fair Use? Participatory Culture, Creativity, And Copyright On Youtube, Joseph Daniel Barden
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This thesis examines how citizens used YouTube to air concerns about copyright law and its influence on content creation. It studies the “Where’s the Fair Use?” (#WTFU) movement that was formed in February 2016 and used YouTube videos to oppose the site’s copyright systems. Using textual and discourse analysis, this thesis examines seven different videos and their respective comment sections. It analyzes how video is used to express dissent, it analyzes the movement’s discourse about fair use, and it examines how YouTube’s copyright systems influence participation. Among the findings, this thesis argues that videos are framed much like television news …