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 [...]
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 [...]
This is a good example of how you can use claim fair use when using copyrighted works. I’m not a lawyer, but this is what they tend to call “transformative.” Plus, the guy in the video, Judson Laipply, is not using the entire work, just part of it. So, hope this picks [...]
As I was reading through my emails the other day, I came across an interesting piece of information about a professor at Case Western Reserve that uses a fictional copyright infringement case and a blog to get students to think about fair use. The blog, as I was poking around it, has some interesting [...]
If you’re interested in listening to a lawyer talk about copyright & how the online world interacts with this, I’d suggest checking out the “Real Deal” podcast from CNet. The two moderators talk to Collette Vogele about copyright, what is OK to do online (fair use) and what isn’t, and how you can protect [...]
