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EFF: Big Win For Fair Use
Sep. 14th, 2015 10:48 pmI'm subscribed to Electronic Freedom Foundation. Tonight EFF sent me this notice via email.
In "the dancing baby case" (where Universal Music Group forced YouTube to take down a video a mom made of her dancing toddler while Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy" played in the background), it seems the 9th Circuit Court has found (in part) (and if I understand correctly) that...
...fair use is a right. Further, that it's part of the right to free speech!
Does this have implications for fandom...? I'm no legal expert but I would think so (?). Seems like good news, at any rate. Take that, Universal Music Group! Bwahahahaaaa!
Read about it here:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/important-win-fair-use-dancing-baby-lawsuit
In "the dancing baby case" (where Universal Music Group forced YouTube to take down a video a mom made of her dancing toddler while Prince's song "Let's Go Crazy" played in the background), it seems the 9th Circuit Court has found (in part) (and if I understand correctly) that...
...fair use is a right. Further, that it's part of the right to free speech!
Does this have implications for fandom...? I'm no legal expert but I would think so (?). Seems like good news, at any rate. Take that, Universal Music Group! Bwahahahaaaa!
Read about it here:
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/important-win-fair-use-dancing-baby-lawsuit
