Fair use? It’s a joke
p2pnet.net news:- Federal law allows citizens to reproduce, distribute, or exhibit portions of copyrighted motion pictures, video tapes, or video discs, under certain circumstances without authorisation of the copyright holder.
This infringement of copyright is called ‘fair use’ and is allowed for purposes of criticism, news reporting, teaching, and parody.
Not.
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May 21st, 2007 at 1:18 pm
Now the creators should put a Donate button on youtube for the work they did, cause they’re sure gonna need the money for when Disney sues them.
May 21st, 2007 at 2:07 pm
… this doesn’t look as if the disney sources he used were “camed in canada” and I doubt that the copyrightowner hiself provided them with those clips.
Actually the sources looked more like “perfectly digital copies” from DVDs. “Got DeCSS?
DVD, CSS, DMCA
Hhmm. If Disney don’t get him for copyrightinfringement since the fair use defense should clearly work in this example maybe they get the guy for violating the DMCA in circumventing the content scramble system to get the clips he used.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 8:35 am
Maybe they will be too busy suing Hamas for Farfur.
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:36 pm
it isn’t illegal to possess a decrypted DeCSS disk, it is the process that makes it illegal.
That is why they are trying to make civil filesharing, criminal, then it is illegal to both circumvent the disk, AND possess it.
it seems the DoJ is also wanting to make thinking about possessing it a crime.
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:30 pm
Not necessarily. Most (if not all) of these look like they are from VHS tapes. All someone would need to do is to hook up a VCR to a TV tuner card to record these into a digital format. Whether or not the cards recognize Macrovision is beyond me, but if the creator used an old VCR that didn’t have automatic gain control, or used a TV tuner card that doesn’t recognize Macrovision, then the DMCA has not been violated. The same thing could be pulled off with a standalone DVD player (again assuming the card does not recognize Macrovision).