Another reason why piracy is better

Glaucus said:
But still, all three of the videos I posted on YouTube are tagged as copyright violations and are not viewable from mobile devices and in some cases only viewable in North America.
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It's the music, right?
I think the terms are just stupid these days. The music consumers used to have rights too but the music consumers don't have lots of money to fight for their rights the way the entertainment conglomerates do. I think the old fashioned rule of thumb was pretty good - if you aren't making money off of your short film and you don't use more than 20 seconds of a song then the copyright owner isn't harmed because nobody can rip a complete copy of their song from your work and they didn't miss out on any money - but they do get a snippet out into the world and the way people usually quote from music is they use the catchiest part so users are really putting out an ear-worm advertising the song.
 
I've read that if you load the song into a wave editor and change the pitch by the minimum amount, that's enough to get past the automated copyright checks.

And you're right about the free PR. Just look at Gangnam Style. A huge part of it's success is due to YouTube, but not because the artist and the Korean label don't care that people watch it on YouTube, it's because they also don't care that everyone and their dog have made a knock off video changing out the video portion but keeping the song (although sometimes changing up the song as well). It's fun watching babies dance to it (and yes, Sophia actually loves that song too, I'm guessing there's something about all those high-pitched notes that really gets them grooving) or a bunch of Korean wanna-be models do their own dance to it... Without all that, PSY would probably never have made that big break in North America, and Samsung probably wouldn't have gotten him to perform at their Galaxy Note 2 launch in Toronto. And really, when was the last time a non-English track made it that big amongst English speakers? Lucky for PSY, he's on a Korean label that doesn't crucify their fans for having fun with a song.

 
Under US Law the creation of parody is entitled as fair use. Doesn't mean someone won't sue you for it. At some points the courts should throw it out.
 
faethor said:
Under US Law the creation of parody is entitled as fair use. Doesn't mean someone won't sue you for it. At some points the courts should throw it out.
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If you can afford to go that far. Law is effectively what you can win.
 
Certainly there are worse freespeech laws out there. The UK comes to mind and their apparent easy to sue and claim the opposition lied. It appears to be the accused liar that must prove their innocence.
 
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