All they're looking for is the power to say "take that website offline" and hopefully do it before any actual court ruling is made about infringing content. Once they have that power, they will abuse it to no end to make sure the only thing online are websites that meet their approval, and that power will extend way beyond the music industry. Lots of businesses will be asking to take down anything they haven't made a deal with.
In some ways we're still fighting World War II, which is really began with World War I. There is always war somewhere. It's basically longstanding political divisions trying to adjust to modern industrialized society.
The media wants you to think the US is all red or blue, when it's really purple. Every community has a mix of opinions. There might a bigger difference between Seattle and Vancouver than there is between Seattle and Tampa.
Diversity is the United States' greatest strength, and controversy is what drives us. You are free to voice whatever opinions you want, and your neighbor is free to contradict you. That's how it works for most people here. Yes, there's hate and bigotry and disagreement, but there's also acceptance and community and caring. It's a nation of immigrants, and most people are open to anyone from anywhere, and respectful of other cultures and traditions, even though I know our history doesn't read that way. Maybe some European countries are better than us, but Europe's history is just as bad as ours.
The danger of the U.S. isn't its people or its diversity - it's simply it's considerable power. That alone makes it a threat to the rest of the world.
Seriously? Spartacus' choice was to riot in the streets or fight to the death in the arena. He figured he was dead either way - oh, and he wasn't exactly victorious either, was he?
So you're saying they didn't infringe, or that it was fair use? Because even copying within an organization is infringement, even though it happens all the time, esp. at MPAA member studios.
If it's published, then it's not a private diary, and therefore open to fair use. Publishing makes everything open to fair use - that's the nature of publishing. It doesn't matter what it is.
Because they've made it so easy and affordable for filmmakers outside of their system to get financing, get distribution, get theatre screens, and get an audience's attention. And if people are successful without their help, it's not long before such people are offered huge sums of money to join them.
The problem is that if everything newsworthy must be paid for, then things which aren't paid for are not reported, or it becomes the exclusive property of the highest bidder, who might simply suppress the footage if they feel it harms them in any way. This makes it an effective form of censorship.
Copyright is supposed benefit the general public, not the copyright holder. Allowing fair use for news commentary benefits the general public, not to mention that copyright law was in no way an incentive to create this particular video.
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Diversity is the United States' greatest strength, and controversy is what drives us. You are free to voice whatever opinions you want, and your neighbor is free to contradict you. That's how it works for most people here. Yes, there's hate and bigotry and disagreement, but there's also acceptance and community and caring. It's a nation of immigrants, and most people are open to anyone from anywhere, and respectful of other cultures and traditions, even though I know our history doesn't read that way. Maybe some European countries are better than us, but Europe's history is just as bad as ours.
The danger of the U.S. isn't its people or its diversity - it's simply it's considerable power. That alone makes it a threat to the rest of the world.
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"Your government is corrupt so you should lead an armed revolution and end up getting crucified like Spartacus."
Right, where's my sabre?
All violence will do is put some other tool in power while others die. I'd like to think there are better options.
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Copyright is supposed benefit the general public, not the copyright holder. Allowing fair use for news commentary benefits the general public, not to mention that copyright law was in no way an incentive to create this particular video.
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