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> My question is - is WideVine taking my rights to fair use away? If yes, can I fight for them somehow? Also I live in Poland and I'm convinced that our rights
by Mindwipe 3y ago
> My question is - is WideVine taking my rights to fair use away? If yes, can I fight for them somehow? Also I live in Poland and I'm convinced that our rights of fair use are really widened comparing to those that are in US.
They're not. They're narrower than in the US, because US fair use is very vague where as copyright law in any EU country is an implementation of the EU InfoSec directive https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32001L0029 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX:32....
The directive sets out a number of limited, specific exemptions to copyright that people accused of infringement can use as a defence. The are much narrower than "fair use". And "I want to make a meme" isn't one of them.
And again, none of these are rights. They are defences. Nobody is required to actively facilitate them, and you can point a camera at your screen if you want to in order to utilise them for, say, criticism and review.
As you say, the act says "permissible." That's not the same as "you have an inalienable right nobody can block or even get inadvertently get in the way of."