Fair Use Or Fairly Useless?
from the fairly-useless dept
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Fair Use is a Defense
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"Ya'll done used my IP... now ya'll goan do right by 'er, y'hear?" Click-Clack.
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The one showing Mimi going to the underground and joining the rebels alliance.
People take away all the legal options people have, sooner or later they will join the "other side" of the debate.
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IT'S INSANE.
But, just like poor Klinger, it's not insane enough.
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"Without love, what are we worth? Eighty-nine cents. Eighty-nine cents worth of chemicals walking around lonely." - Hawkeye Pierce
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Gotta love Toledo for /something/.
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So A+ not "seconded". Instead I move that this reference also be graded A+ :)
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Nina scores again...
Nina (er, Ms. Paley?), great stuff! I've also managed to make a few more fans for you. I want a Mimi and Eunice t-shirt!
;)
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Me too!
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Once again, Nina preaches to the choir. A few giggle, anyone with a brain dismisses it for the propaganda it really is.
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Interesting that you don't address whether or not those defenses could be accurate and fair defenses... just that they're losing. And you also don't go out to state that the defenses are being denied on correct and fair interpretation of Fair Use... after all, we've seen over the last few months that many judicial entities are interpreting the law in what could be considered 'questionable ways'. Without citations to back up your claims, I�m going to hang my hat on this side of the pole. It�s just as reasonable as yours.
So, is Nina trying to say that Fair Use is bleeding on the floor? Maybe, maybe not. Is it clear, to those of us who feel that Fair Use is being shot down out-of-hand, that it is not as formidable a protection as it once was (and should be)? Apparently.
ZZZZZZOMG! You mean Nina drew a political cartoon which expresses her opinion and posted it on her website which is probably viewed by those who share that opinion!?!?111!?!?!??!11111one!!2
Nina! You evil, dastardly, devious, subversive mind! Propaganda?! Sounds like something the NAZIS would use!!!! YOU MUST BE CHANNELING SCHWEITZER!!!!!!!!one!!!o!!!n!!!e!!!
crap. broke the exlaimation button on my keyboard. Well, AC, I hope I successfully illustrated how foolish that last part of your opinion [sic] was.
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As for Nina's cartoon, I disagree with the opinion, I find it to be without merit, and mostly the whining of someone still pissed off because she can't make a living on the back of other people's work.
Perhaps you would like to stick to debating the concepts rather than going for mocking. It makes you sound like an idiot.
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You and I have a different opinion of "know" and "expand". I look at the VHS (and other such situations) as the spirit of Fair Use being applied to new technology that has never been addressed before. Since the spirit has not been changed, I wouldn't call that 'expansion' in the same tone you use.
and your opinion has been noted and filed under "troll".
Of what concepts would you be speaking? the only 'concept' (read: opinion) you brought forward that wasn't lacking in needed citation was that this cartoon is propoganda. Sorry, but I fail to see how that concept is worthy of anything but mockery... much less debate.
I promise you... of the two of us, I'm not the one in danger of looking the fool.
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You look like quite an idiot. Promise.
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Are you one of those that decry people going to sites that support your opinion and stating our own? I know there are many that come here and do just that.
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HERAPARA JAYDEEP
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School
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