Today’s brownbag brought up some really interesting points.  One point that Professor Sikand mentioned was that many times documentary filmmakers become discouraged by the price of licensing copyrighted works.  This is a shame because most filmmakers do not have the budget of a Hollywood feature film and upon realizing how much the licensing of a song for their movie can be, they often decide against producing or finishing their work.  This prevents many important stories from being told.  Professor Sikand did mention that their is a light at the end of the tunnel.  She mentioned that there are websites that feature music that can be used freely in movies as long as the artist is credited. While reflecting on the short clip we watched where filmmakers were discussing copyrighted works in relation to their films, I decided to look a little bit more into this issue.  While searching the web I cam across this website which highlights documentary filmmakers’ statement of best practices in fair use.