In my epic struggle to find a relevant example of parody, I turn up a number of great satires. Here I have one that skirts the line between the two (if such a line exists). Courtesy of Collegehumor.com, its a faithful frat version of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Before you click, you can read the lyrics [...]
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Since the mid-90′s, people have been posting pictures on the internet. And for the same amount of time people have been stealing them for personal and commercial use. Take for instance the thumbnail screenshot from Family Guy below. If I were compiling and printing a book about cartoons, then my use would be infringement. If [...]
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I was wondering when this bit of revisionism would take hold. I do not have a side in this battle (or a stake in it, when is my phone going to ring?), and for me it is purely an academic issue which should be framed thusly: “Whether format-shifting music (such as ripping a CD to [...]
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This has been a pet peeve of mine for a while – the incorrect, misleading, and fearmongering copyright statements made by many media. That statement is a bit soft. In reality, the media companies lie about their rights to control content in an attempt to instill fear in their customers. The author of “The Tech [...]
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Use of copyrighted material located using Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine by defendants for Litigation a fair use Last month the the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled on a case that at first blush seems entirely too long to deal with the subject matter (40 pages). The opinion dismissed the Plaintiff’s [...]
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The law blog at the Wall Street Journal points out that a complaint filed against YouTube this week copies greatly from one filed a few weeks back. They highlighted the relevant text in the two complaints for you. Here is the first and second complaint. Is it infringment or fair use? Good question, which also [...]
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Perfect 10, Inc. v. Amazon.com, Inc. and Google, Inc., CV-06-55405 (pdf). In summer 2005, a Cali. federal district court issued a preliminary injunction against Google and Amazon, preventing them from “copying, reproducing, distributing, publicly displaying, adapting or otherwise infringing, or contributing to the infringement of Perfect 10’s photographs.” The plaintiff, Perfect 10, Inc., is s online [...]
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NPR’s Morning Edition had a segment on this morning about the Fair Use Project at Stanford Law School‘s Center for Internet and Society. Most specifically, they discussed how they believe fair use should work on the Web. An interesting listen, even if a little light on the law and big on rhetoric. Just saying “Fair [...]
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Apple 2.0: Is DVD Ripping in Apple TV’s Future? This week Apple announced the end of DRM for iTunes. The market spoke and, apparently, someone is finally on the side of the customer. See this article at the Economist. Belatedly, music executives have come to realise that DRM simply doesn’t work. It is supposed to stop [...]
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Full story here with a bucket full of links: Science Journal (Almost) Polices the Blogosphere. Short story, PhD student blogs about the analysis of a study in the Journal of Science of Food and Agriculture which had been picked up by mainstream press because it suggested that antioxidants in fruits were boosted by alcohol (i.e [...]
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