Lessig on copyright in politics

Lawrence Lessig has a nice op-ed in the New York Times on the importance of fair use/copyright in the political realm.  Here’s the quote that I think is most important:
The digital copyright act gives the alleged infringer an opportunity to demand that the content be restored. But in the height of a political campaign, even [...]

DJ Girl Talk & Copyright

This story in the New York Times had been sitting on my desk for a while now and I thought I should write about it.  It reminds me of the whole Grey Album controversy with the Beatles/Jay-z mashup that DJ Dangermouse made and was selling.  In this case, Girl Talk, whose real name is Gregg [...]

Hodgepodge of information

This is going to be a link dump, but there are some interesting articles to think about.
“Universal: ‘Fair Use’ is still infringing” What struck me about this article was this statement: ‘Universal told a judge this week that, even though the clip may in fact be “fair use,” it was still “infringement.”‘  Seems a little [...]

Creativity, Fair Use, and User Generated Content

Lawrence Lessig has an excellent TED video that describes what he sees as problems with the current copyright system and how it affects creativity and user generated content.  His combination of the history of copyright, fair use, and problems associated with it do a good job at getting the viewer up to speed as well [...]

Remixing Videos

Someone commented on my blog post regarding the Peanuts video that uses Outkast’s Hey Ya!. This person did not agree with me that this video’s use of the Charlie Brown Christmas special & Hey Ya! was fair use. So, this got me to thinking, what can I write that would better make my [...]