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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Not until someone tells me how it's fair for me to use it.
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I don't see this as anything more than another loophole woven into the fabric of copyright law.
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Steve, the case in point was a 29-second video of a toddler dancing to Prince's "Let's Go Crazy" uploaded by a mother to YouTube. I don't see how that is not fair use, which by the way, seems
pretty well defined in the US - although you are right that this is not a global arrangement, but then again, neither is copyright.
What is happening now is that content owners (again, as distinct from content creators in most cases) go after people with automated & rubber-stamped takedown notices under the DMCA. See also "
why my printer received a DMCA takedown notice". I hope that cases like this will put an end to that practice.