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He has the same rights everyone else does, copyright on his creative works, including this video. That's not the issue at hand. The issue at hand is: Is if Fa
by dsp1234 10y ago
He has the same rights everyone else does, copyright on his creative works, including this video. That's not the issue at hand.
The issue at hand is: Is if Fair Use to use 22 seconds of a 45 minute video to report on newsworthy topic?
The answer is yes. Showing select excerpts of copyrighted work for the purposes of news and commentary is a classical Fair Use example.
The reverse of your statement is also true:
Everyone has right to assert a Fair Use exemption. This news agency should as well.
- anigbrowl 10y agoThis is like the famous assertion that the rich as well as the poor are free to sleep under bridges. To ignore the relative financial strength of the two actors is inequitable.
- dsp1234 10y agoRegardless of who the actors are, this is classical Fair Use. The reason you don't see the opposite very often (major media company's materials being used in a Fair Use manner) is that company's lawyers are smart enough to see it's Fair Use, and that their case would be thrown out of court almost immediately.