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To be perfectly honest, I was so pleased to remember about Long v. Ballantine that I stopped reading at that point and came here to post. With that said, I don
by Pinckney 14y ago
To be perfectly honest, I was so pleased to remember about Long v. Ballantine that I stopped reading at that point and came here to post.
With that said, I don't see how Ars later characterizes the clip as anything but fair use. Looking specifically at
The Romney ad seems like as clear-cut a case of fair use as can be imagined. Obama's singing is a core part of the ad's message, and copyright law explicitly mentions commentary and criticism as justifications for fair use. And it's hard to imagine the ad harming the market for Al Green CDs or iTunes tracks.
Ars seems to be saying that the ad meets two of the criteria for fair use: that it is commentary or criticism, and that it has no effect on the work's market. How does this strike you as indicating that they are rejecting fair use?
- pattern 14y agoThis was my parsing of the article as well. The video could be viewed as being either a "commentary" or a "criticism" or both. The continuation "and copyright law explicitly..." is reinforcing that author's belief that this is the case.
- alexqgb 14y agoI'm fairly sure the "commentary and criticism" exception pertains to fair use use of media that refers to the media itself (e.g. film reviews, cultural commentary, satire of a popular program etc.) All this is very different from declaring "I'm producing a work of commentary or criticism and therefore I can do anything I want with whatever I find, even if the point I'm making relates to something else entirely." That's just a rookie move. Rupert Murdoch really was right about Romney needing to "drop old friends from team and hire some real pros." https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/219393140245807104 https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/219393140245807104