Almost a year ago, Bob linked to a segment from The Tonight Show in 1973 in which professional "spoon bender" Uri Geller was exposed on national television by Carson and frequent Carson guest and professional debunker James Randi. The clip, via YouTube, was part of a larger documentary about hoaxes.
Recently, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Geller's company, Explorologist Ltd., demanded the clip be removed for violation of copyright. YouTube suspended the account of the user who posted the video.
But wait, there's more: out of the fourteen-minute video, Geller can only claim a copyright on about four seconds of it, which means it falls under "fair use." And, as this article explains, the DMCA reads, "under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the owner of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed." This has led to the Electronic Frontier Foundation filing a lawsuit against Geller.
[via Boing Boing]
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5-11-2007 @ 2:22PM
emor8t said...
Now, the only question is, if I take [i]Casino Royale[/i] and break it up in to 4 second clips, then host them on my webpage, is it legal?
Presuming that the downloader would be intrepid enough to download them all, and recompile them into the full movie.
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5-11-2007 @ 5:13PM
Brent McKee said...
Anything that takes a peg out of that faker is something I'm all in favour of.
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5-11-2007 @ 5:28PM
Chris said...
Wouldn't the clip be the property of "Carson Productions" since it happened on "The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson?"
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