Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/22
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc, It is "Iran", not Iraq in the song spoof. :-P ---But I guess it is all the same to you neocons. Jerry Marc James Small wrote: > "Fair Use" is really intended for academic and publishing use in > commentary and review. It might include, of course, a review of, say, > a photographic exhibit, but it does not include an extension to simply > ripping off someone else's work. > > By way of example, I am currently reading Carlos d'Este's WARRIOR: A > LIFE OF WINSTON CHURCHILL AT WAR 1874 - 1945. I will write a review > of this for several maritime and military history lists to which I > subscribe. I will probably include specific quotations. That is > permissible, even if the review gets picked up by a periodical and I > am paid for it. But such fair use must include full attribution or, > at the least, have the attribution available if questioned about it. > > It's really not that odd a doctrine. I cannot, of course, take a > paragraph from d'Este and try to pass it off as my own. > > The Supreme Court has ruled that satire, if obviously such, is not > protected by copyright. This decision arose out of a suit against > Limbaugh and Shanklin for their spoofing of rock songs, such as "Bomb, > Bomb, Bomb Iraq!" to the tune of the Beach Boy's "Barbara Ann". All > of those gazillions of spoofs on American Gothic are similarly > protected. And that portrait of Churchill by Karsch has been redone a > number of times, often with a bull-dog dressed up as Churchill was. > Again, that is protected speech. > > Marc >