User-Generated Video Content At Risk Of Private Censorship
from the as-the-copyright-cartel-turns dept
Someone from the CenterforSocialMedia writes in to let us know about a new report from American University professors Pat Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi. "It finds that many online videos creatively use copyrighted materials in ways that are eligible for fair use consideration under copyright law. But even though they are potentially using copyrighted material legally, these uses -- an exercise of freedom-of-speech rights -- are currently threatened by anti-piracy measures online." This won't come as a surprise to many around here, of course, but it's yet another report backing up what's been well known for a while. The push by Big Content companies to claim that copyright allows them to do things well beyond the scope of the law already is creating (and will continue to create) chilling effects on perfectly legitimate and important areas of content creation.Thank you for reading this Techdirt post. With so many things competing for everyone’s attention these days, we really appreciate you giving us your time. We work hard every day to put quality content out there for our community.
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Oh, come ON!
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That wouldn't help. They claim that buying a CD gives you no right to use it that manner anyway.
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Handel or Bach?
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What haqppens if I program a computer to read and play the Handel / Bach?
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