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Glee is an American musical TV show that covers a high school glee club (singing club) complete with all the teen drama of high school. They sing covers of exis

Glee is an American musical TV show that covers a high school glee club (singing club) complete with all the teen drama of high school. They sing covers of existing songs during their musical acts. They sang Jonathan's cover of Sir Mix a Lot's "Baby Got Back" recently. Except the cover was sampled either 100% for the medley or recreated to a point of being imperceptibly similar. Jonathan was not given any attribution for this. Now Fox is selling recordings of this cover of Jonathan's cover. Does Jonathan have a claim to his cover of an already copyrighted work?

aidos 14y ago
They've definitely overstepped the line on it. Next time they're thinking about taking down material on copyright grounds they might want to reflect on this case.
- eslaught 14y ago
  It is perhaps worth noting that the reason why this can happen is that the group of people running Glee and the people handling copyright takedowns are two completely different sets of people. Unless this event catalyzes communication between those two groups, you can expect to continue to see inconsistencies in policy enforcement like this.
  - begurken 14y ago
    There's an implicit assumption here that consistent behaviour within a corporation matters. I think this is wrong. Corporations' interests are served perfectly well by them behaving inconsistently whenever it suits their interests. There may well be executives in Fox who know about the inconsistencies here who simply don't care, because it doesn't affect the bottom line.
- illuminate 14y ago
  This isn't the first time Glee's done it either. https://twitter.com/richardcheese/status/292725851068440577 https://twitter.com/richardcheese/status/292725851068440577
ghshephard 14y ago
To be entirely accurate, Glee now covers High School and College. This particular song was sung at NYADA ( New York Academy of Dramatic Arts).

aidos 14y ago

They've definitely overstepped the line on it. Next time they're thinking about taking down material on copyright grounds they might want to reflect on this case.

eslaught 14y ago
It is perhaps worth noting that the reason why this can happen is that the group of people running Glee and the people handling copyright takedowns are two completely different sets of people. Unless this event catalyzes communication between those two groups, you can expect to continue to see inconsistencies in policy enforcement like this.
- begurken 14y ago
  There's an implicit assumption here that consistent behaviour within a corporation matters. I think this is wrong. Corporations' interests are served perfectly well by them behaving inconsistently whenever it suits their interests. There may well be executives in Fox who know about the inconsistencies here who simply don't care, because it doesn't affect the bottom line.
illuminate 14y ago
This isn't the first time Glee's done it either. https://twitter.com/richardcheese/status/292725851068440577 https://twitter.com/richardcheese/status/292725851068440577

ghshephard 14y ago

To be entirely accurate, Glee now covers High School and College. This particular song was sung at NYADA ( New York Academy of Dramatic Arts).