[Air-L] Video Game Research - Fair Use?

Thu May 5 15:33:14 PDT 2016

Thank you very much, I had come across this document already from a Google search and found it useful. I’m very reassured to know it’s legit!

Thanks again,

Ben

From: Patricia Aufderheide [mailto:pat.aufderheide at gmail.com] 
Sent: 05 May 2016 23:08
To: Patricia Aufderheide <paufder at american.edu>
Cc: Benjamin Turpin <b.turpin at outlook.com>; air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Video Game Research - Fair Use?

Wondering now if AIR should endorse--thoughts? 

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:05 PM, Patricia Aufderheide <pat.aufderheide at gmail.com <mailto:pat.aufderheide at gmail.com> > wrote:

Delighted to share with you clear guidance from communication researchers, where you can see the practices that will put you squarely within fair use for your research: 
http://archive.cmsimpact.org/fair-use/related-materials/codes/code-best-practices-fair-use-scholarly-research-communication (look at the third category)

Created by ICA scholars and endorsed as well by NCA. On their websites, it's only a PDF but if you want to be assured that a national association of scholars has vetted this, here are the two websites: 
http://www.icahdq.org/pubs/reports/fairuse.pdf
https://www.natcom.org/uploadedFiles/More_Scholarly_Resources/Publishing_Primer/PDF-publishingprimer-fair_use.pdf

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 6:02 PM, Benjamin Turpin <b.turpin at outlook.com <mailto:b.turpin at outlook.com> > wrote:

Hello all,

I'm in the process of planning a research project that will involve
recording how players emotionally and cognitively respond to particular
types of video games.

I'm hoping to allow participants to play a commercially available game for
60-90 minutes in lab conditions. There will be three different games with
ten participants for each game.

I had intended to use my personal copies of these games (purchased on Steam)
for the experiment, but am unsure if this would make me legally vulnerable
without seeking permission of the developers. Does anyone have any knowledge
of whether this type of distribution would be considered 'fair use' of
copyrighted materials?

Any advice much appreciated!

Ben Turpin

PhD Student, Sociology

University of Essex

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 <tel:202-643-5356> 202-643-5356

 <http://cmsimpact.org/reclaiming> Sample Reclaiming Fair Use! 

 <http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Fair-Use-Balance-Copyright/dp/0226032280/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321544105&sr=8-2> Order Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright, University of Chicago Press, 2011. 

-- 

Patricia Aufderheide, University Professor and Founder
Center for Media & Social Impact, School of Communication
American University 

4400 Massachusetts Av., NW

American University, Washington, DC 20016-8017

McKinley Hall 323

@paufder @cmsimpact

 <http://www.centerforsocialmedia.org/> www.cmsimpact.org
 <mailto:paufder at american.edu> paufder at american.edu
 <tel:202-643-5356> 202-643-5356

 <http://cmsimpact.org/reclaiming> Sample Reclaiming Fair Use! 

 <http://www.amazon.com/Reclaiming-Fair-Use-Balance-Copyright/dp/0226032280/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1321544105&sr=8-2> Order Reclaiming Fair Use: How to Put Balance Back in Copyright, University of Chicago Press, 2011. 