{"id":390,"date":"2007-07-28T04:40:06","date_gmt":"2007-07-28T10:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=390"},"modified":"2007-07-28T04:40:06","modified_gmt":"2007-07-28T10:40:06","slug":"the-death-of-fair-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"The Death of Fair Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070725-universal-demands-takedown-of-homemade-dancing-toddler-clip-eff-sues.html\">This<\/a> is fucking insane:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A 29-second video clip of a toddler dancing to Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy&#8221; is the subject of a new court complaint against Universal Music Publishing Group, which demanded that the clip be removed from YouTube in early June. Apparently, the company believes that a few seconds of music blasting from a background stereo infringes on its copyright, but the Electronic Frontier Foundation disagrees. The EFF filed suit against Universal yesterday, alleging that the music in the clip was &#8220;self-evident non-infringing fair use<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How many people out there are being bullied and harassed by these jackasses? We really need to revist the DMCA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is fucking insane: A 29-second video clip of a toddler dancing to Prince&#8217;s &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go Crazy&#8221; is the subject of a new court complaint against Universal Music Publishing Group, which demanded that the clip be removed from YouTube in early June. Apparently, the company believes that a few seconds of music blasting from a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=390\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Death of Fair Use<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-6i","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}