No, it doesn’t say exactly that, actually. The BB piece was based on the [torrentfreak][1] piece I linked to. Here’s the key quote from torrentfreak: “The main issue is that automated bots don’t (or rather can’t) understand fair use…”
Look at the “I’m not pissed” video. For one thing, I’m pretty sure he didn’t personally take all of the video footage being used in the video, so there’s a multitude of copyright issues there. Second, even if we look only at the music, the very title of the song calls it a “Cheryl Cole spoof.” Spoofs—be they satires or parody—involve copyright violations, even if they are “original compositions” (though they’re really not that original if they’re spoofing something else, which is why they violate copyright). While parodies may be able to use the “fair use” affirmative defence to that copyright violation, satires do not. Which is to say that both satires and parody involve copyright violations, but only if the work is a true/legal parody is that copyright violation excused.
[1]: Why YouTube's Automated Copyright Takedown System Hurts Artists * TorrentFreak[quote=“redesigned, post:18, topic:26892”]
Yep, about 8% of commercial dvds are not css encrypted, i have a criterion disc sitting on the shelf next to me that isn’t. I can transcode it straight from the vobs on the disc, no ripping required.
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What’s the Criterion title, and where are you getting this 8% stat from? I asked about this in the previous thread while specifically mentioning Criterion, and you declined to answer. Also note that CCS is not the only form of DRM or copy control that appears on DVDs, as things like region coding and Macrovision may also be there.
Dude, you did the same thing last time. Claimed how I must be ignoring all this news, then when I asked for evidence you posted 5 links that resolved down to four links about one good (and recent) paper and a link to a horrible piece of analysis of incomplete data.
Also, note that I wasn’t assuming anything. I was asking for an example.
Except you assume that I don’t follow the news, you assume the unspecified “news” you’re talking about says exactly what you think it does, you assume that this guy really is having public domain information pulled and that it is inappropriate to ask him about for an example of this content, and you assume that Dan Bull’s allegedly infringing videos are 100% “original compositions” (though not even the BB piece says this).
The idea of IP is hardly new. I mean, it’s obviously in the US constitution, and there are trade secrets that have been successfully protected for centuries.
