http://bciptf.org/blog/2006/08/01/copyright-schmoppyright-and-robert-ryangs-trailer-of-the-shining/ Blogging by the Intellectual Property & Technology Forum & Journal at BC Law Mon, 21 Jun 2010 11:52:14 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://bciptf.org/blog/2006/08/01/copyright-schmoppyright-and-robert-ryangs-trailer-of-the-shining/comment-page-1/#comment-125231 Christian Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:47:47 +0000 http://bciptf.org/blog/2006/08/01/copyright-schmoppyright-and-robert-ryangs-trailer-of-the-shining/#comment-125231 Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

]]> http://bciptf.org/blog/2006/08/01/copyright-schmoppyright-and-robert-ryangs-trailer-of-the-shining/comment-page-1/#comment-7 paul Wed, 02 Aug 2006 16:07:35 +0000 http://bciptf.org/blog/2006/08/01/copyright-schmoppyright-and-robert-ryangs-trailer-of-the-shining/#comment-7 So the factors for fair use are: purpose, nature, amount, and market impact. What's a parody taking a few minutes of a two-hour long film, distributed virally via web sites, for no profit? It's no-impact, no-confusion, no-blood, no-foul. Sounds like "fair use" to me. And in no way similar to pure file-sharing. Or like the DJ Dangermouse "Grey Album"--the brilliant but violative mash-up of Jay-Z's Black Album and the Beatles's White Album. So the factors for fair use are: purpose, nature, amount, and market impact. What’s a parody taking a few minutes of a two-hour long film, distributed virally via web sites, for no profit? It’s no-impact, no-confusion, no-blood, no-foul. Sounds like “fair use” to me. And in no way similar to pure file-sharing. Or like the DJ Dangermouse “Grey Album”–the brilliant but violative mash-up of Jay-Z’s Black Album and the Beatles’s White Album.

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