MetaFilter posts tagged with USE

For the Unemployed, the Day Stacks Up Differently

splatta — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 07:18:15 -0800

How are Americans spending their time? An informational graphic from The New York Times.

Get Your Fiber-Free Fruit Drink On

ed — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 17:42:42 -0800

David Rees's comic strip Get Your War On (and video), has been appropriated by Jamba Juice into an animated Flash video. Rees, of course, built Get Your War On using clip art, which makes matters a little trickier. Is Jamba Juice's ad a case of fair use? Or are there enough factors being used here for Rees to have a casus belli? Will we see more advertisements pilfering along these lines?

Muxtape Tells All

crazyray — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:28:38 -0800

Muxtape's Justin tells the story play-by-play. You may remember an earlier post about muxtape being shut down. After all kinds of speculation, discussion, and consternation, we can finally know what really happened.

Plagiarism? Hey, that's MY bit!

basilwhite — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 10:37:58 -0800

Leno, Other Comics Sue Over Joke Books Quote books have been legal and established as fair use, but the lawsuit claims that Ms. Brown sent representatives to comedy clubs to record comedians' routines to copy the jokes into print. Judy defends her fair use rights on Amazon's page for a previous book.

sunny day...

amberglow — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:49:52 -0800

Ernest and Bertram --short film, formerly one of the best films you can't see after debuting at Sundance in 2002, with Sesame's lawyers then cracking down and forcing it to be pulled--now on youtube.

Illegal drugs in the United States

dilettante — Sat, 13 Aug 2005 10:40:47 -0800

What does the DEA say about drugs in your state? (Some states take a very hard line against gateway drugs...)

All your content are belong to us

id — Sat, 28 May 2005 13:27:24 -0800

Think you're in full control of your computer? Think again. Intel has just quietly added one of the necessary components of Microsoft's (and the TCG/TCPA's) DRM technology, Palladium, to the PC platform. Some say this is a move against rampant Chinese software piracy, others think it's a power grab by the content producers. Left unchecked, content and software producers will have the final say in how you use your computer, fair use be damned.

Copyright... copyleft...who's right? whomever's left!

niteHawk — Tue, 06 Jan 2004 08:57:26 -0800

"You can't copyright anything on the Internet" Retrocrush posted an article written by thier own, to point out the "Worst Sex Scenes Ever" in the movies. Less than 30days later, the british tabloid "The Daily Star" printed an article that seems to have come directly from the site, attributing the source to a (seemingly fictitous) american magazine called "Film". Not only did the Star's news editor make the above quote, but the story was picked up by a wire service, and has seen print in several other online and print publications... Obviously it's not Fair Use. What would happen if reporters came here looking for ideas?

DRM

Ron — Tue, 17 Jun 2003 10:20:06 -0800

Self destruct files to secure DVDs and CDs. Songs and movies will expire after a single play, unless you pay up.

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 19 Jan 2002 07:29:19 -0800

"Any sufficiently advanced form of technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
Apparently we've reached that point in the US.