{"id":709,"date":"2013-09-28T09:33:15","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T16:33:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=709"},"modified":"2013-09-28T09:33:15","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T16:33:15","slug":"the-copyright-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/09\/28\/the-copyright-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"The copyright robots"},"content":{"rendered":"

There is a wonderful story on NPR this morning, “Record Company Picks Fight – With the Wrong Guy<\/a>,” about Harvard Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, who was threatened by an Australian\u00a0record label\u00a0called Liberation Music with a copyright-infringement lawsuit after he posted a “remix<\/a>” of one of that label’s songs on YouTube. Lessig happens to teach copyright law, alas, and has fought back against the perhaps inappropriately named music company using an ingenious argument.<\/p>\n

Lessig knew he had a legal right to publish these remixes online as part of the “fair use<\/a>” laws that govern copyright permissions in much of the world. “If I’m using [the remix] for purposes of critique, then I can use if even if I don’t have permission of the original copyright owner,” he says.<\/p>\n

From the NPR story: “Lessig\u00a0decided to invoke another part of the copyright law, ‘which basically polices bad-faith lawsuits’ \u2014 threats made fraudulently or without proper basis. Lessig is suing Liberation Music because he wants labels to stop relying on automated systems<\/a> to send out takedown notices.<\/p>\n

“What we’ve got is this computerized system threatening people about content that’s on the Web, much of it legally on the Web,” Lessig\u00a0says. The problem, he says, is the impact: “what we think of as a very significant chilling of completely legitimate and protected speech.” Lessig hopes his suit will set a precedent that will persuade copyright holders to put human beings who know the law back into the equation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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