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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
1994 · Film · 103 min
Directed by Stephan Elliott
Two drag performers and a transgender woman travel across the desert to perform their unique style of cabaret.
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> allows a school to play a movie
No, it doesn’t. Play 10% of a movie for the purpose of critiquing it, perhaps.
https://fairuse.stanford.edu/overview/fair-use/four-factors/
Fair Use is not an a priori exemption or exception; Fair Use is an “affirmative defense” so once you have your day in court and the judge asks your attorney why you needed to play 10% of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert for your Gender Studies class, then you can run down those Four Factors enumerated by the Stanford article.
Particularly “amount and substantiality”.
Teachers and churches get tripped up by this all the time. But I’ve also been blessed with teachers who were very careful academically and sought to impart the same caution on all students about using copyrighted materials. It is not easy when fonts have entered the chat!
The same reason you or your professor cannot show/perform 100% of an unlicensed film under any circumstance, is the same basis that creators are telling the scrapers that they cannot consume 100% of copyrighted works on that end. And if the risks may involve reproducing 87% of the same work in their outputs, that’s beyond the standard thresholds.
I prefer good writing over wokie identity politics injected into low grade corporate content. Disney is never producing a film of the same quality as Priscilla Queen of the Desert. And I’m sick of people defending Disney mediocrity because it panders to them or pretends to be high-minded.