Insurer Offering Coverage to Documentary Filmmakers

Media/Professional Insurance, a company that specializes in offering coverage to media and internet clients, has decided to offer a program to documentary filmmakers that would enable them to rely on the "fair use" doctrine for the clips they use in their work but still obtain insurance coverage. Media/Professional and Stanford University Law School's Fair Use Project developed the idea of such coverage together. Read more here in an article from Variety (also available through LEXIS) or here in an article from the Hollywood Reporter.