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EFF: Big Win For Fair Use
I'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