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Submission + - Disney presents: Fair use and copyrights

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jdavidb

on Thursday May 24, 2007 @05:40AM

jdavidb writes: "Eric Faden of Stanford University's Fair Use Project "stole" thousands of tiny clips from dozens of Disney films to create an educational film explaining copyright and fair use. Right out of the mouths of characters from Disney, the chief advocate behind the most recent ex post facto extension of copyright, you can learn how copyright terms have been extended, how important it is for works to pass into the public domain in something resembling a reasonable period of time, and what exceptions are granted by the principle of fair use."

Comment Re:Yes (Score 0) 471

by fufubag on Monday February 26, 2007 @04:32AM (#18150300) Attached to: Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia

"If parents don't want their kids to watch stuff like this, they should stop their kids from watching stuff like this, not call the TV station to take it off the air. They're "parents". That's a title that entails some amount of responsibility."

No no no, not in a liberal government society... You don't need personal responsibility, that is the job of the government and corporations... duh!

China Buys Google 70

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 01, 2006 @02:42PM from the are-you-feeling-loyal,-citizen? dept.

Fry-kun writes "The Register reports that a controlling amount of Google's Class B stock was purchased today a corporate entity owned by the Chinese Ministry of Information." From the article: "Amongst the assets acquired by the Chinese government is NASA's Ames Research Center. Google announced a partnership with Ames last year, and, as it turns out, the move laid the groundwork for the takeover by the PRC. The Chinese will gain control of the world's largest wind tunnels - devices that when opened up could be used to push the smell of Mu Shu Pork across much of Silicon Valley, or conversely be used to spread avian bird flu, or mind-altering substances."

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