Ahoy! I added a comment towards your request. Good-day!

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I'm not too familiar with the copyright laws he mentioned in this video. Could someone enlgihten me please?

One court's definition of 'parody and satire', from the above link;

"Parody or satire, as we understand it, is when one artist, for comic effect or social commentary, closely imitates the style of another artist and in so doing creates a new art work that makes ridiculous the style and expression of the original. Under our cases parody and satire are valued forms of criticism, encouraged because this sort of criticism itself fosters the creativity protected by the copyright law."

On the copyright issues, he claims 'fair use' and argues that he's creating parody and/or satire of the copyright owner's work. This is still a poorly defined area of copyright law. I would actually disagree with this defense, as its difficult for me to see how a super-fast edit of a movie constitutes a parody or satire (unlike, say, a Weird Al song or something).

Here's a link of someone's analysis of the cases related to this... includes cases involving a Saturday Night Live advert campaign, Dr. Seuss's family, and 2 Live Crew... so thats pretty cool.

http://tags.library.upenn.edu/project/11251

First Amendment also protects parodies. If you're doing something in parody, then you are protected under free speech because it's a form of criticism. However, some companies use the copyright laws to shut them down because they say they're taking their ideas and profiting from them. It's a sad world that let's the media giants get away with it, considering these parodies have in the past stopped government corruption and helped cure a lot of social ills. But in essence, that's what 5 Second Videos is doing . . . taking someone else's idea and using it as a parody to make a point, which is unmistakably legal. YouTube is in the wrong and acting as a censor . . . and thus violating firth amendment rights. (But don't get that confused with violating their TOS which they can use as a right to censor and are thus doing.)

I'm not too familiar with the copyright laws he mentioned in this video. Could someone enlgihten me please?

The irony of this being pulled off for fear of repercussion for disobeying copyright laws makes me giggle.

this isn't exactly the same video, but it shows all the same highlights. Darn Zuffa and their enforcement of copyright laws

Copyright law is becoming the bane of creativity and collaboration and derivative works, not the protector that it was originally intended to be. There's very little difference between sending your friend a good track that you heard and inviting him over to listen to it in person, except that the convenient way is illegal.

So we taking bets on how long they last?

I wonder how they're even up in the first place. I mean, you'd have to be pretty stupid not to be familiar with copyright laws, and it's not exactly like these sites are hidden.

Fuck Youtube and all the DCMA ass-bandits who had a hand in taking this video down. An intelligent, witty, well-produced and -edited video that encourages its viewers to take a moment and use their brains for once, and you genital-monglers trash it for the sake of some fucking petty copyright law, because maybe then you can clink a few coppers more into your pools of cash? What has our society come to? For fucking shame.

Agreed; I laughed when I saw that message too. Probably a kid who doesn't know the details of copyright law.

I knew this conversation would appear when I saw the news on the elevator "headline news" screen.

For once, something interesting instead of the "Yahoo Web Report - search for pi at all time high." [shudder]

A reform of copyright law? Brilliant idea - if only you could get a few hundred thousand infulential people to get it to happen. Stupid political system - how long until a Sifter is in charge?

The digital copywrite laws are so disjointed that it will take a play by play for each and every video to determine if it breaks the law. The law prohibits making money from reproducing the work or from reproducing the work in its entirety. Showing a clip or a portion of a show is technically not in violation of copyright laws. Technically.

The argument is this: If you are at a party in my house and I play you a video that you did not purchase, is Sony - who made the DVD player that I am showing you the video on - in violation of copyright laws? Many people are viewing it, but they did not purchase the video. I am sharing it with everyone at the party through a piece of equipment.

This is the argument for video share sites. Or for anyone who streams a video onto their web site. In the past, clips or portions were not considered in violation, but the big studios are trying to change that.

I rather think YouTube will try and keep good relations with anyone (ie Big Studios) who complains of copyright violations.

I saw this before seeing the James Blunt video. Here is the description that goes with the video:





In March 2006 a group of filmmakers/songwriters from the University of California, Irvine created a parody of the original James Blunt song, "You're Beautiful". The song and music video were created as a final project for a film production class at the University. Enjoy!


"I'm Emotional" Lyrics:



My life's a train wreck.

My life’s a train wreck. Love was the train. I saw a goddess. Feelings and pain. She winked at me on the subway. Or maybe it was at her man. Candles and lube, no sleep tonight. That is my plan.

I’m emotional. I’m emotional. I’m emotional, it’s true. I saw your face on myspace. And I swear I’m not a fag. Just an emotional douche bag.

She caught me standing still. From her window sill. She could see from my face that I was a Fucking tool. And I don’t think that I have a shot. But from my window I’ll never get caught.

I’m emotional. I’m emotional. An emotional stalker. I saw your face on myspace. I swear I’m not a fag. Just an emotional douche bag.

La la la la, La la la la, La la la la, cock tease.

I’m emotional. I’m emotional. I’m emotional, it’s true. And I wrote this song to get in your pants. Like so many artists before me. But it’s time I face the truth. I’m a pathetic douche.

*This work falls under the "Fair Use" clause of Section 107 of US Copyright Law.

there are a lot of sites like pirate bay. but PB is the only that publishes those funny letters from big companies, that want them to remove their content from the trackers... ie response to one of EA's emails:
"From anakata_anakata.hack.se Mon Sep 13 07:20:31 2004
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 07:19:36 -0100 (GMT)
From: anakata
To: Piracy - Online <Piracy-Online@ea.com>
Subject: Re: Copyright Infringement

On Tue, 14 Sep 2004, Piracy - Online wrote:

> September 14, 2004
>
> SENT VIA E-MAIL
>
> Fredrik Neij
> PRQ
> Box 1206
> Stockholm, Sweden 11479
>
>
> Re: Electronic Arts Trademark and Copyright
> Infringement Notice
>
>
> Dear Mr. Neij:
>
> It has been brought to the attention of Electronic Arts Inc. ("EA") that
> the website http://www.piratebay.org with the IP addresses of
> 217.75.120.115, 217.75.120.116, 217.75.120.118 is conducting
> unauthorized activities with respect to EA's copyrighted software, The
> Sims 2. The aforementioned website is offering and distributing
> bittorrent seeds for an unauthorized downloadable version of this EA
> game.
>
> The infringing material may be found at:
>
> http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3238103/Sims%202.torrent
>
> http://www.piratebay.org/download.php/3238222/The_Sims2_AlcoholClone-CLO
> NEGAME_Full.Release_%28exclusive_for_trackerwww.prq.to%29.torrent
>

Hello and thank you for contacting us. We have shut down the website in
question.

Oh wait, just kidding. We haven't, since the site in question is fully
legal. Unlike certain other countries, such as the one you're in, we have
sane copyright laws here. But we also have polar bears roaming the
streets and attacking people :-(.


> This unauthorized activity with respect to the distribution of EA's
> software products constitutes infringement of EA's intellectual property
> rights. EA enforces its intellectual property rights very aggressively
> by using every legal option available.

Please don't sue us right now, our lawyer is passed out in an alley from
too much moonshine, so please atleast wait until he's found and doesn't
have a huge hangover...

>
> As you are listed as the registrant for this website, EA demands that
> you immediately and permanently disable access to the aforementioned
> bittorrent seeds for The Sims 2 and any in the future.

You're free to demand anything you want. So are we. We demand that you
cease and desist sending letters like this, since they're frivolous and
meaningless. Where should I send the bill for the consumed diskspace and
bandwidth?

> Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions concerning
> this matter, please contact us via e-mail at:
> piracy-online@ea.com.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> EA Law - IP Enforcement
> Electronic Arts Inc.
> piracy-online@ea.com <mailto:piracy2@ea.com>

Thank you for your entertainment. As with all other threats, we will
publish this one on http://static.thepiratebay.org/legal/

//anakata"