EFF Teaches Barney The Dinosaur An Expensive Lesson In Fair Use
from the happy-now? dept
The folks behind Barney, the purple dinosaur TV character, have a long history of not quite understanding copyrights and fair use, as they tend to send out cease & desist letters at the drop of a hat, even if there's no actual violation. In fact, they sent so many to one person who had an online Barney parody site (parody is protected by fair use, remember) without actually suing him, that he (along with the EFF) finally sued Barney's owners back. It seems that this little sing-a-long lesson in copyright and fair use finally made sense to the stuffed dinosaur, who not only has agreed to stop sending out cease & desist letters to the guy, but also will pay for his legal bills in defending himself. Are we all a happy family now?
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by Anonymous Coward on Nov 28th, 2006 @ 1:37pm
I love you, you love me. . .
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by Anonymous Coward on Nov 28th, 2006 @ 1:41pm
Let's go nuts and sue Barney?
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by Stu on Nov 28th, 2006 @ 1:55pm
Barney is scarey as hell.
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funny... by ehrichweiss on Nov 28th, 2006 @ 2:37pm
About 10 years ago there was a file going around about how Sesame Street was a million times better than Barney and one of the things on it was that on one episode Barney basically humiliated a child for not wanting to share something whereas on SS, they simply said the child had that right and while it was cool to not share, there were benefits to sharing.
I'm guessing that Barney decided HE didn't want to share either.
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Stealing from the thief? by Copyright double agent on Nov 28th, 2006 @ 3:18pm
Isn't most of Barney's music ripoffs from other songs? How do they get to sue when they just take nursery songs and change the words?
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by Anonymous Coward on Nov 28th, 2006 @ 4:12pm
I smell you, you smell me
We're a smelly family
With some stinky socks
And some really stinky shoes
Won't you came and smell me too?
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by IT STUDENT on Dec 15th, 2006 @ 7:18am
Can't We All Just Get Along??
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:O by HANNAH on Oct 1st, 2007 @ 11:52am
Barney??Being sued I used to love him when I was little
Awww...
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