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Fair Use for YouTube & MySpace Users
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "A few years back, documentary filmmakers didn't know what copyrighted clips they could safely include in their films as a 'fair use'. Now there's a well-accepted set of 'best practices' that establishes rational, predictable rules. The same folks who brought rationality to the world of documentary filmmaking are about to work their magic in the user-generated online content space, including user-created videos on YouTube and user-created music on My Space. They said: 'Nonprofessional, online video now accounts for a sizeable portion of all broadband traffic, with much of the work weaving in copyrighted material ... A new culture is emerging — remix culture, an unpredictable mix of the witty, the vulgar, the politically and culturally critical, and the just plain improbable ... What's fair in online-video use of copyrighted material? The healthy growth of this new mode of expression is at risk of becoming a casualty of the efforts of copyright owners to limit wholesale redistribution of their content on sites like YouTube, and of videomakers' own uncertainties about the law.'"
hilarious.
This country was founded on the bedrock principles of socialism and tyranny. Socialism is inseparable from tyranny and the two form the core defines this great nation. In a nutshell you are here to serve the state. Do as you are told and always respect authority. I would do anything the government told me to do even murder and eat infants or cut my own dick off and stuff down my throat if they so requested.
Get with the times. Your constitution has been overruled by socialism and you need to either get with the program (the social program) or get out of here. You are here to serve the state and establish and support the socialist New World Order/North American Union.
has bben my only won't be standing 'I have to kill me if you'd like,