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Is There "Hope" for Shepard Fairey?
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| Shepard Fairey may have hoped to teach
| something new about art and copyright with
| his iconic "Hope" poster of Barack Obama.
| Instead, he is accused of lying about which
| Associated Press photo he used. (He says he
| made a mistake.) But if Fairey's lying has
| probably made a hash of his case and lost
| him a lawyer, it has also raised that pesky
| question yet again: Just what is fair use?
| Was it legal for Fairey to take an AP photo
| and turn it into this piece of artwork?
|
| [...]
|
| Here's a second example: This is the
| Economist's use of the infamous Abu Ghraib
| photos, taken by American military
| personnel, which TV, newspapers, and
| magazines repurposed without hesitation.
| What we have here is fair use in news
| reporting. The photographs in the Abu Ghraib
| scandal were the story; what might have
| otherwise been an infringement of copyright
| is permitted so that the news can be
| reported. From this, we understand why fair
| use bears a close relationship to the
| freedom of the press. Again, the use is
| considered "fair" because there is some good
| reason, or many, for it.
|
| What counts as a "good reason"?
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http://www.slate.com/id/2233152/
PRS threatens shop worker for singing
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| The Performing Rights Society don't like bad
| press. Today, the BBC are reporting that the
| PRS have backed down after threatening 56
| year old Sandra Burt of the A&T Food store
| in Clackmannanshire, Scotland with a fine of
| "thousands of pounds" for the serious crime
| of singing to herself while stacking shelves
| without purchasing a licence.
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http://www.pirateparty.org.uk/blog/2009/oct/21/prs-threatens-shop-worker-singing/
Government backs down on cutting off filesharers
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| CULTURE SECRETARY Ben Bradshaw has revealed
| that, due to strong opposition, measures to
| tackle illegal filesharing will be watered
| down.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1559396/government-backs-cutting-filesharers
Recent:
Stanford Takes Up Case Against AP
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| Okay, maybe not Congress just yet. But fresh on the heels of Harvard Law
| taking it to the RIAA over the recording industryâs litigation scare tactics
| against the nationâs universities and assumed pirate students. When the best
| profs at Harvard Law come after you, you know youâre in big, big trouble.
|
| The AP is facing similar intimidating opposition from the other coast, this
| time from Stanford Law and San Francisco-based Durie Tangri Lemley Roberts &
| Kent, who just filed a lawsuit against the Associated Press. The suit seeks a
| declaration from the court that Shepard Faireyâs artistic transformation of
| an AP photograph of Barack Obama is fair use. The suit also seeks an
| injunction against the AP from further action against Fairey or anyone else
| using or displaying his workâperhaps like the Smithsonian, at the moment.
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http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2009/02/09/stanford-takes-up-case-against-ap
Directors Admit They 'Steal' Ideas... But Most People Recognize That As
Inspiration
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| Jon Lawrence points us to an article in Variety where a bunch of movie
| directors admit that they often look to other movies for ideas to "steal" in
| making their own movies. Of course, they don't really mean "steal."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090203/0304073621.shtml
AP Gets It Wrong Again: Wants To Restrict Certain Reports To 500 Words
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| It's not difficult to see what's going on here. The AP is trying to be
| more "bloggy." Shorter, more attention grabbing pieces? Apparently, it's
| decided that people online only want to read the quick hits on salacious
| stories. Of course, despite what some may
| think, that's not really true.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081201/0315542987.shtml
Related:
What's Fair Use, Anyway? AP Has a Thought, and So Do I
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| Now that AP has purported to establish fair use guidelines that would make 5
| words licensable as not fair use, I thought I'd explain a bit about fair
| use and about why Groklaw no longer will link to or quote from any AP
| articles. I've seen reports that AP has backed off in some not quite
| clear-to-me way, but I notice their list of fees remains online.
|
| [...]
|
| And that is why Groklaw no longer will quote from or link to AP, and I'd ask
| you not to do so in your comments either. I can't pay $50 a pop, and I don't
| like being sued, even though I'm positive the 5 words guideline would fail. I
| think you've seen how horrible litigation really is, from watching the SCO
| saga, so do go along with this decision, please. Nothing AP has is worth this
| kind of hassle.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20080622144323977
The Cost of Excerpting the AP
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| It's priced by the word, and using a 5- to 25-word excerpt costs $12.50 with
| a 251-word or longer excerpt costing a ridiculous $100.
|
| This ordeal reminds me a lot of the fight against piracy. No matter how much
| the AP tries, it will never be able to curtail the entire blogosphere, just
| as the RIAA will never be able to completely eliminate piracy. The big
| question remains: Will the AP's reputation begin to resemble that of the
| RIAA?
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/staffblog/archives/007122.html
Associated Press expects you to pay to license 5-word quotations (and reserves
the right to terminate your license)
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| In the name of "defin[ing] clear standards as to how much of its articles and
| broadcasts bloggers and Web sites can excerpt" the Associated Press is now
| selling "quotation licenses" that allow bloggers, journallers, and people who
| forward quotations from articles to co-workers to quote their articles. The
| licenses start at $12.50 for quotations of 5-25 words. The licensing system
| exhorts you to snitch on people who publish without paying the blood-money,
| offering up to $1 million in reward money (they also think that "fair use" --
| the right to copy without permission -- means "Contact the owner of the work
| to be sure you are covered under fair use.").
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http://www.boingboing.net/2008/06/17/associated-press-exp.html
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