Pat Aufderheide is of those people who is a fixture at every film festival and important indie film event. I'm not quite sure how she does it. But whe she told me a few months back that she was going to try to organize the best thinking about Fair Use, i knew she would make something important. Well, sure enough... it is:

http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/fairuse.htm
http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/rock/backgrounddocs/bestpractices.pdf

Center director Patricia Aufderheide is a professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C., and the director of the Center for Social Media there.

She is the author most recently of The Daily Planet: A Critic on the Capitalist Culture Beat (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), and of Communications Policy in the Public Interest: The Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Guilford Press, 1999), and she is the editor of Beyond PC: Toward a Politics of Understanding (Graywolf Press). She has been a Fulbright and John Simon Guggenheim fellow and has served as a juror at the Sundance Film Festival among others.

Aufderheide is a prolific cultural journalist, policy analyst, and editor on media and society and has received numerous journalism and scholarly awards. She has advocated for universal service telephone policies for the United Church of Christ and has consulted on media issues for the Benton, Rockefeller, Ford and MacArthur foundations, as well as a variety of public television organizations.

Aufderheide currently serves on the board of directors of the Independent Television
Service, which produces innovative television programming for underserved
audiences under the umbrella of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. She also serves on the film advisory board of the National Gallery of Art and on the editorial boards of a variety of publications, including Communication Law and Policy and In These Times newspaper. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Minnesota.