Subject: RE: Questions about two cases of copyright infringement From: "Croft, Janet B." <jbcroft@xxxxxx> Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:03:20 -0500 |
For the first one, I feel like it might be permitted under the teaching umbrella, as a conference presentation, Was this something like a poster session? Or was it more like a vendor table, where I don't think it would be protected? For the second one, if this was a one-off impromptu performance, it would probably be okay -- but if this is the standard spiel she uses on every flight, maybe not. But who knows, perhaps the airline purchased permission or has some tie-in with Disney that allows or even encourages this. Janet Brennan Croft Associate Professor Head of Access Services University of Oklahoma Libraries Bizzell 104NW Norman OK 73019 405-325-1918 Fax 405-325-7618 jbcroft@xxxxxx http://faculty-staff.ou.edu/C/Janet.B.Croft-1/ http://libraries.ou.edu/ Editor of Mythlore http://www.mythsoc.org/mythlore.html Book Review Editor of Oklahoma Librarian http://www.oklibs.org/oklibrarian/current/index.html "Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the rising ape meets the falling angel." -Terry Pratchett -----Original Message----- From: Jack Boeve [mailto:JBoeve@xxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 1:35 PM To: digital-copyright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Questions about two cases of copyright infringement SUMBITTED BY MODERATOR ON BEHALF OF ROBERT HOLLEY. Please reply to the list. Thank you. ============ I have some questions about two occurrences during the 2009 ALA Annual Conference and would like to ask for comments on whether two copyright infringers were running any "real" risks for their infringement. In the first case, a professor who was hosting an exhibit at one of the Chicago museums was showing YouTube videos on two monitors in a continuous loop. I asked the professor about copyright permissions. The person answered that he didn't have any. The second case happened as my flight landed in Detroit when one of the flight attendants sang a pastiche of a song from a Disney movie that was certainly under copyright protection given Disney's policies on copyright. I don't think that the pastiche would have qualified as a parody. I thought that this possible infringement was more dangerous because the speech was commercial, the airline has deep pockets, and a Disney executive might be taking the flight. My questions are whether these two cases posed any real risks for being sued for copyright violation or whether these fell under the category of theoretical violations where the people involved were indeed violating copyright but ran little risk of any consequences. Thanks! Bob Robert P. Holley Professor, School of Library & Information Science Wayne State University Detroit, MI 48202 313-577-4021 (phone) 313-577-7563 (fax) aa3805@xxxxxxxxx (email)
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