Idea Lawyer Blog

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.