This is the link to Hillary Clinton’s Soprano parody video. It starts out well with a shot of a diner in Mt. Kisco near my old office. It then proceeds to refer to the final scene of the Sopranos (complete with cameo by Vince Curatola, the actor who played Johnny Sack), with Journey’s ‘Don’t
Are Britney’s Lawyers Crazy (Like Foxes)?
A Florida radio station ran billboards (pictured above) showing Britney Spears and one of the station’s DJs, suggesting that she and DJ were ‘nuts.’ Ms. Spears contested the use. The radio station is pulling the billboards. Unfortunately, the Smoking Gun has printed only one of Britney’s lawyers letters, not the one that contains ‘many legal
Backgrounds Move To The Foreground
As Thomas Pynchon once wrote: Some people can’t see the a great work of architecture without thinking “chase scene.”
Such people will be troubled by this BBC Report that the Church of England is planning legal action against Sony, for use of Manchester Cathedral as a background for a video game scene.
Info/Law
“Newspapers Want Google News’ Quarter’
News.com: “Newspapers want Google News’ quarter” (discussing Google’s indexing of newspapering content).
Must See For Those Interested In Copyright
Video explaining fair use using Disney snippets (somewhat reminiscent of a kidnapper’s note read aloud). Hat tip to AT.
“Viacom Sued Over Colbert Parody on YouTube”
News.com: “Viacom Sued Over Colbert Parody on YouTube”:
“Viacom is misusing U.S. copyright law by forcing YouTube to remove a parody video of The Colbert Report, according to a lawsuit filed against the media conglomerate Thursday. However, Viacom denies the accusation and said it does not object to the video being on YouTube.”
Sex, Gender and Fair Use
And I’m Sitting Here On Capitol Hill
Let me anticipate two questions.
C-Span is not a government entity, but a not-for-profit consortium backed by the cable industry, and, all other things being equal, can own and assert copyright.
Second, a congressperson showing a bit of C-Span footage of a congressional hearing on the congressperson’s website, would seem to be fair use.
OK,
Some Posts On the Viacom/YouTube Spat
NewTeeVee: ‘YouTube Should Call Viacom’s Bluff‘
Mark Cuban: ‘Gootube Terrorizes Copyright Owners by Withholding Filters‘ (in which he advocates the uploading of porn to YouTube to test its filtering abilities.
Reel Pop: “YouTube’s inability to remove copyrighted clips could get it sued” (in which it monitors Google’s progress in
GEMA v. YouTube and MySpace?
NewTeeVee: “YouTube, MySpace Face European Copyright Clash“:
“Collective licensing organizations throughout the continent have been demanding compliance in recent months, seeking their share of the potential billions generated by online video. At the forefront of this movement is GEMA – a German organization that now now has its sights on YouTube and MySpace.”