January 3, 2008
Video Report: A Legal Defense of Videos Riffing on Popular Culture
Online videos that use clips from copyrighted music and movies may not violate the law and deserve protection from blanket prohibitions, two scholars at American University — Pat Aufderheide, a professor of communication, and Peter Jaszi, a professor of law — contend in a new report.
Update: The professors are taking their argument to the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas next week. Ms. Aufderheide is scheduled to speak on a panel there on Monday.
What will representatives of the entertainment industry think of their argument that fair use might cover more than many people think? In an e-mail interview on Wednesday, Patrick Ross, executive director of the Copyright Alliance, a nonprofit group whose members include associations for the motion-picture and recording industries, said that “copyright owners are not trying to suppress fair use, they practice fair use.” He said he had not yet read the professors’ report and declined to comment further. —Jeffrey R. Young
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Academics do a lot of illegal things. Sooner or later their criminal actions will catch up to them.
— quentin Jan 3, 10:01 AM #
quentin is probably right, and I expect that many academics will eventually get speeding tickets.
But fair use is not illegal! It’s explicitly allowed for under copyright. Perhaps Professor of Law, Peter Jaszi really does know something about copyright law.
— Henry Schaffer Jan 3, 11:25 AM #
Don’t you find it ironic that they are charging a fee for the talk, when the talk falls under their own “Discussion-Trigger” argument?
http://myces.bdmetrics.com/SessionDetails.aspx?id=2000680
— George Jan 7, 01:18 PM #