Comments on: Swiftly going West: Digital parody comes of age

By: Jo Jordan

Jo Jordan — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 11:06:22 +0000

There will be a battle. There may wins and losses. Some battles may even show us the way of the future. Most will be pointless. People will get hurt and grudges will live on beyond our memory of why we started fight in the first place.

The lawyer, Zetrain is it, speaking at TED, captured the essential point. The technology undermines the compulsion to control. The defenses can be overrun – will be overrun.

What matters is a positive goal. I found (and loss) a reporter’s summary of the battle between old and new media. He used words like armistice. Yes, when the battle is lost, rather work on terms of the peace. Or lose more.

But should we expect ‘turkeys’ to join the armistice. No, we shouldn’t. That would be naive. But they can if they want to.

By: John

John — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:12:36 +0000

It’s intriguing. My namesake, John Oswald, over in Canada has been doing ‘plunderphonics’ music for years, basically mashing up tunes and doing strange things to them. He’s released albums etc and sails very close to the law: “If creativity is a field, copyright is the fence” , according to him… http://www.plunderphonics.com/xhtml/xplunder.html: “Plunderphonics, or Audio Piracy as a Compositional Prerogative”…
What we’re talking about here is a video version of something that’s been around a while…

By: Ben

Ben — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:40:19 +0000

Imagine if you had made a valid historical documentary but couldn't release/show it. Save OneNineNineFour

By: Martin Budden

Martin Budden — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:16:40 +0000

In US copyright law there is a “fair use” clause that allows the use of portions of copyright material for the purpose of criticism, news reporting, education and parody. Unfortunately I don’t believe that there is such a clause under UK law.

Eric Faden cleverly and humourously explains copyright using clips from Disney in his “Fair(y) use tale”: