Just because the law is applied wrongly in one case doesn't mean it should be applied wrongly in every case. You should not get in trouble for encoding your CDs./joe
The copyright never expires when the commercial lobbies keep getting Congress to push the extentions further and further. See the recent Sonny Bono memorial act. Disney had their balls in their throat because Steamboat Willie's copyright was about to expire, and it brought up the possibility of other companies using images of Mickey as Steamboat Willie without permission.
Samples are protected by copyright, yes. But Fair Use does not only protect parody and critique. Fair Use presents four prongs, not all of which have to be completely satisfied.
The argument from pro-sampling (particularly audio collage) artists here, though, is that using a small sample of your song (or t.v. show, or movie, or spoken word of your book, or whatever) should not automatically be protected when it's not clearly financially ripping you off (i.e., bootlegging).
If I make an experimental piece which uses a little snippet of Britney Spears' vocals, am I somehow cutting into her market share? What if I'm not even selling my art? In the current environment, I can still be sued.
The point of copyright was to protect artists while encouraging creativity, not stifling it.
It's definitely not that simple. dudev("That's just, like, your opinion, man.");
According to the Fair Use doctrine, I can sample your music withour permission. For instance, I could make a parody or social criticism using your music.
And even if your sample is recognizable, it is still possible, artistically, to use it in a completely new way.
Hardly. If you're on Earthlink and decide to opt-in for this, it simply means that everybody you know has to send you one extra email once.
And that every time you get spammed from a new address (read: constantly), the system fires off another confirmation email from you. It effectively doubles the number of network connections spam generates./joe
Like another poster pointed out, it's called "civil disobedience". Read some Thoreau.
When the judge rules that you're not allowed to speak, will you remain silent?
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Just because the law is applied wrongly in one case doesn't mean it should be applied wrongly in every case. You should not get in trouble for encoding your CDs. /joe
Fair Use IS law.
/joe
Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 107
The copyright never expires when the commercial lobbies keep getting Congress to push the extentions further and further. See the recent Sonny Bono memorial act. Disney had their balls in their throat because Steamboat Willie's copyright was about to expire, and it brought up the possibility of other companies using images of Mickey as Steamboat Willie without permission.
/joe
Samples are protected by copyright, yes. But Fair Use does not only protect parody and critique. Fair Use presents four prongs, not all of which have to be completely satisfied.
The argument from pro-sampling (particularly audio collage) artists here, though, is that using a small sample of your song (or t.v. show, or movie, or spoken word of your book, or whatever) should not automatically be protected when it's not clearly financially ripping you off (i.e., bootlegging).
If I make an experimental piece which uses a little snippet of Britney Spears' vocals, am I somehow cutting into her market share? What if I'm not even selling my art? In the current environment, I can still be sued.
The point of copyright was to protect artists while encouraging creativity, not stifling it.
It's definitely not that simple. dudev("That's just, like, your opinion, man.");
/joe
According to the Fair Use doctrine, I can sample your music withour permission. For instance, I could make a parody or social criticism using your music.
And even if your sample is recognizable, it is still possible, artistically, to use it in a completely new way.
It drives network traffic as well up to the sky.
/joe
Hardly. If you're on Earthlink and decide to opt-in for this, it simply means that everybody you know has to send you one extra email once.
And that every time you get spammed from a new address (read: constantly), the system fires off another confirmation email from you. It effectively doubles the number of network connections spam generates.
The linux version doesn't do me much good in Solaris :)
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Some of us are... especially if our shirts are the ones with the DeCSS code printed on them!
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Like another poster pointed out, it's called "civil disobedience". Read some Thoreau. When the judge rules that you're not allowed to speak, will you remain silent?
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