The issue of copyright infringement is something that most people are aware of.的問題，侵犯版權是一件大多數人都知道。 It’s pretty obvious that if you take a recent movie or TV show and rebroadcast it or distribute it online in its entirety, that is copyright infringement.它的很明顯如果你最近的電影或電視節目和轉播，它或分發它在網上的整體內容，這是侵犯版權。 But are you aware that a legal principle of ‘fair use’ exists, and has done so for more than 150 years?但你知道有一個法律的原則， '公平使用'存在，這樣做是為更超過150年呢？ And that ‘fair use’ means that much of the current trend for mashups and parodies of copyrighted content is, in fact, totally allowed?和'合理使用'的手段有很多目前的趨勢，為mashups和模仿受版權保護的內容是，事實上，完全不准？

The US based ‘美國基於' Center for Social Media中心為社會媒體 ‘ is an organization with a good track record of educating everyday people about the law, and establishing guidelines that people within the legal world actually follow. '是一個組織與紀錄良好，教育人民日常生活有關的法律，並建立準則，人民的法律，其實世界的後續。 They’ve just released a ‘他們剛剛公佈了一項' Code of Best Practices for Online Video代碼的最佳做法在線視頻 ‘ which we think will be of interest to many WorldTV producers. '我們認為會感興趣的許多worldtv生產者。

In the spirit of fair use itself, we’ve reproduced the main points below.在的精神，合理使用本身，我們已經複製的主要點以下。 Do read the做閱讀 whole document整份文件 if you intend to make use of these provisions.如果您打算利用這些規定。

What is Fair Use of copyright material?什麼是公平使用版權材料？

Here are the main principles of ‘fair use’.這裡的主要原則'公平使用' 。

  • Commenting on or critiquing of copyrighted material在評論或批評的版權保護的材料
  • Using copyrighted material for illustration or example使用有版權的資料作說明或例子
  • Capturing copyrighted material incidentally or accidentally捕捉版權保護的材料順便或意外
  • Reproducing, reposting or quoting in order to memorialize, preserve, or rescue an experience, an event, or a cultural phenomenon複製， reposting或引用在為了紀念，保存，或拯救一個經驗，一個事件，或一種文化現象
  • Copying, reposting, and recirculating a work or part of a work for purposes of launching a discussion複製， reposting ，循環或工作的一個組成部分，工作的目的，開展討論
  • Quoting in order to recombine elements to make a new work that depends for its meaning on (often unlikely) relationships between the elements引用在以重組的內容作出了新的工作，這取決於它的意義就（通常不可能）之間的關係的要素

A PDF of the guidelines can be found一個PDF文件的指引可以找到 here這裡 , an online version is一個在線版本 here這裡 . 。