May 31, 2006 US Congress to Consider Adopting Orphan Works Legislation Michael C. Donaldson, former IDA President, is an entertainment attorney based in Los Angeles and is the author of Clearances and Copyright You may Read more
Meet the DocuWeeks Filmmakers: Rachel Libert and Tony Hardmon--'Semper Fi: Always Faithful' Over the past month, we at IDA have been introducing our community to the filmmakers whose work is represented in the DocuWeeks TM Theatrical Read more
October 31, 2006 MPAA Exposed! Kirby Dick Sticks It to the Ratings System 'The Film Is Not Yet Rated' looks at the NC-17 stigma. Read more
Full Frame Comes Full Circle: Doc Fest Reconnects with Duke University The Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was launched in 1997 as the Double Take Documentary Film Festival, sponsored by the Documentary Studies Read more
April 11, 2011 Weird Is Good: SXSW 2011 South by Southwest's March film festival in Austin, Texas (town motto: "Keep Austin Weird") provides, for documentary lovers, an exciting mix of the Read more
January 31, 2007 Patricia Aufderheide: Promoting the Understanding of Documentary as a Shared Experience 2006 IDA Preservation & Scholarship Award Read more
February 21, 2011 F for Faux—and for Fair Use: The Copyright Conundrum of Staged Docs As primetime television continues to phase out scripted fare in favor of more inexpensively produced "reality" programming, and as documentaries Read more
February 17, 2011 Avoid the Mumbo Jumbo: Legal Advice for Filmmakers A review of 'The American Bar Association Legal Guide to Independent Filmmaking' Read more
February 1, 2011 Television’s Multi-Million Dollar Secret: Claiming Retransmission Royalties for Documentaries Approximately $270 million is collected annually in the United States for the single purpose of compensating television program copyright holders for Read more
December 13, 2010 The Death of Objectivity? When Documentary Footage Becomes Evidence Speaking at the Commonwealth Club of California earlier this year, Albert Maysles made a comment that many in the audience may not have heard. He Read more