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RIAA Calls YouTube-Viacom Decision Bad Public Policy
adeelarshad82 writes "The Recording Industry Association of America voiced its opposition to the recent decision in the YouTube-Viacom copyright infringement case, stating that 'the district court's dangerously expansive reading of the liability immunity provisions of the [Digital Millennium Copyright Act] upsets the careful balance struck within the law and is bad public policy.' Cary Sherman, RIAA president, also wrote in a blog post, 'It will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.'"
"Well tough shit! It's OUR culture not yours so fuck off." - The People of these 50 United States
"eeep!" - RIAA runs away
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
'It will actually discourage service providers from taking steps to minimize the illegal exchange of copyrighted works on their sites.'
Boo hoo, you can't get other people to do your jobs for you, you lazy fuckers!
"RIAA Calls YouTube-Viacom Decision Bad Public Policy"
Next headline needs to read as follows:
"Public Informs RIAA Nobody Gives A Fuck"
Dear RIAA,
Shut the fuck up.
Sincerely,
Everyone
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.
In other news: NAMBLA thinks age of consent laws are bad public policy.
Sure. The difference is that Paris Hilton would be insightful enough to see the irony.
No, but it definitely be the best thing that could possibly happen to the RIAA.
You are welcome on my lawn.
If you skip reading the paper one day, you could miss any event that happened.
With /., if you miss it once, you know there'll be a dupe in a day or so.
Comm64, just when I've written you off, you say something that endears you to me.
I'm also one of the 15,000 by the way.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Simple logic :
The RIAA owns all multimedia.
Therefore, ISPs own all the web.
When we indulge that kind of thinking, we devalue human life. If the RIAA CEO died, he would simply be replaced by a carbon-copy duplicate.
Ok, that's funny. Devalue human life. Carbon-copy duplicate. Ha. Look what you did there.
This space available.
That's the saddest thing I've ever heard. No, really it is. I'm sorry if that came across as sarcastic.
somebody call me?
National Association of Marlon Brando Look Alikes?
Wait, I thought the RIAA was the Black Plague.
...braces for the -1, Offtopic
I don't post AC. I like my -1, Flamebaits. Trump/Sheen 2012 on the Batshit Insane ticket!
Those videos usually have three core parts:
1) The actual gaming things captured. This is copyright blizzard (Actually it's a derivative work, the art in the game belongs to them but the screencast is not the art itself and has more to it) - but blizzard has already given explicit permission for the creation and distribution of such derivative works.
2) Usually there is a voice-over explaining the tactics you are looking at. This is copyright whoever is reading it, it may even have another owner if it was written by somebody else.
4) Then there is usually a lot of guild-chatter as well. This is even trickier. Every single person typing there owns the copyright to the line of text they wrote which appeared on screen during the video. For most raids - that's 25 people, if the caster had the guild window open it could be 100 or more people's copyright - in one short video.
You forgot: 3) ???
Oh, and 4) is suposed to be Profit!