The Genius of Copyright: Parody through MP3Aggregators
Disinclined to waste anything as precious as time, I must salvage yesterday's random point & click on the internet into the sembalnce of a blog entry ....here's the path I clicked...
beginning with "parody" and "fair use" as general topics, I visited:
Google's website for public posting of video's and laughed at low brow parodies of Shakira (while listening to the entire song - something about Hips----).....{my preferred writing music is Johnny Marr and The Healers}
http://The Law and Politics of Internet Activism: The Yes Men, Peta, Rtmark, and the Phenomenon of Parody Websites by Anita Ramasastry;
coverage of the Ludlow Music versus Jib Jab case and settlement [ i commend downloading the EFF complaint and viewing pdfs of Woody Guthrie's original documents filed in the US Copyright Office....]
EFF's Fred von Lohmann writes:
"The idea of copyright law is that, after a time, every work comes back into the hands of the public, where it can be reused, recycled, made part of new creativity without having to pay a fee or call in the lawyers. That's the great thing, the real genius of copyright."(emphasis added)
moving through Kevin Heller's blawg>
checking out MP3 aggregators
elbo.ws
At the end of my click fest, I still am unclear about how much of a copyrighted new release I can use for my upcoming vlog (!!!) without taking one or more licenses. However, I might go buy a Shakira tune to play during my next click fest.