Dan Bull: Censored By Copyright For Protesting Being Censored By Copyright
from the more-copyright-as-censorship dept
On Friday, we wrote about the ridiculous situation in which Lord Finesse issued a takedown for Dan Bull’s video that was critical of Finesse’s lawsuit against Mac Miller. Over the weekend, Dan decided to do a “documentary” style video about the situation, entitled CENSORED BY COPYRIGHT. It’s eight minutes, and worth watching in its entirety:
In the meantime, Lord Finesse posted something on his own Facebook account, implying that Dan Bull has no fair use claim, because he has ads on his YouTube channel. Of course, that’s not quite how fair use works. While the fact that Dan might make some money could play into whether or not it’s fair use, the fact that you monetize your work does not automatically mean you lose fair use protections. As Dan notes in his own comment, news organizations — magazines, newspaper, TV news and radio — are all for-profit ventures, and are probably the biggest users of fair use. What Dan was doing here was providing commentary on the news in the same way that a news program or magazine might.
Filed Under: criticism, dan bull, fair dealing, fair use, lord finesse, mac miller, parody, uk
Comments on “Dan Bull: Censored By Copyright For Protesting Being Censored By Copyright”
Campbell v Acuff Rose Music
Campbell v Acuff Rose Music (1994)
(Emphasis added.)
Re: Campbell v Acuff Rose Music
Also, from Fisher Vs Dees 1986: “We recognize, however, that many parodies distributed commercially may be “more in the nature of an editorial or social commentary than … an attempt to capitalize financially on the plaintiff’s original work.” Milky Way Productions , 215 U.S.P.Q. at 131 (footnote omitted). In such cases, of which this is one, the initial presumption need not be fatal to the defendant’s cause. The defendant can rebut the presumption by convincing the court that the parody does not unfairly diminish the economic value of the original.”
Does the Dan Bull parody unfairly diminish the economic value of Lord Finesse’s original?
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|Does the Dan Bull parody unfairly diminish the economic value of Lord Finesse’s original?
Well I suppose Lord Finesse’s lawyers could argue in court that Dan Bull made Lord Finesse look like a douche which reduced the value of his works because no one wants to purchase anything from a douche, especially one that might make you look like a used tampon…….
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Except the court would find that lord finesse (who apparently doesn’t own a dictionary and doesn’t know the meaning of the words Lord (as in nobility) or the word finesse) made himself look like a douche simply by reason of his own existence.
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Only if it is in fact parody, which is still debatable here. It’s more like political commentary. It’s not made to make you laugh at fun he is making of the song, but rather that he is making commentary on the person.
So he is fighting an uphill battle, having to prove that it is in fact a parody, that it doesn’t do any economic harm, etc… I doubt he is going to spend the money required to prove the point. Further, it’s not good for an attention whore agenda, courts take time. Just issuing another commentary “song” is the best way to keep the spotlight focused on you, and not the issues.
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Fair use is not limited to parody. The non-exclusive ? 107 factors are:
?Comment? is the second listed example purpose. And critical commentary implicates both the first and second listed example purposes.
But there is no reason to suppose that Campbell’s analysis of the lower court’s mistake would be different when the critical commentary is not exactly parody but instead some other type of critical commentary.
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“purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research”
Yes, but generally that doesn’t mean you take someone’s copyrighted work and use it to make a new song. Those are uses that are very specific and not really meant to apply to someone making a new song.
Commentary would take a short clip of the music, play it, and then COMMENT on it. It wouldn’t use the music as the beat for a rap about something.
You stretched it to the breaking point, and it snapped, sorry!
Re: Re: Re:3 Campbell v Acuff Rose Music
Umm, care to cite something that states that?
Commentary and criticism can come in any form. Dan Bull has a clear history of using song as both.
Re: Re: Re:4 Campbell v Acuff Rose Music
Umm he quoted the law, read it again.
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Nothing in what’s been quoted here says that you can’t use and entire bit of work for criticism or commentary. In fact I’m fairly certain there’s at least one precendent that’s been mentioned here before that states the opposite.
Please clarify.
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The issue is that the end result isn’t a commentary, it’s a new musical work. Forget the rules of a commentary (which would be like a review or an op-ed) and look at the rules of new musical works.
Even Dan Bull knows he is defeated here.
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So commentary is ok, and using the music is ok, but if you do both at the same time it’s not ok. That makes perfect sense…
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Where does he say that? He won’t fight it because he doesn’t have the funds to do so. That isn’t ‘defeated’ by the law. That’s defeated by the bank. Besides, I’ll trust precedent over your analysis, thank you.
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So I can’t make commentary in a musical work?
Dang! There go all those protest songs then…
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“The issue is that the end result isn’t a commentary”
You clearly have not read the lyrics or watched/heard the audio track to the video. It is exactly a commentary, with a fair amount of parody thrown in, with commentary on the parody.
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Making a new song is certainly transformative.
Again from Campbell:
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You are really desperate to prove that this isn’t fair use, huh?
And that shows the difference between you and most people on this blog. When there’s a fair use gray area, we would much prefer the outcome be more speech and less censorship. You seem to derive some sort of glee from the idea of shutting down someone’s art.
Whether you believe the letter of the law makes this particular thing fair use, what you should probably agree is that this is exactly the kind of thing that SHOULD be fair use, and exactly the kind of thing that fair use exists to protect. But you don’t seem to have thought that far at all: you just don’t like Dan, apparently, so you want to see his work disappear whether it’s right or wrong.
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I thought censorship was okay as long as I don’t like the person and/or their message…?
/dumbtroll
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I’ve met and talked to one of these types in person (he wasn’t even a “creator”, but he supported the model in case it ever there was some “property” he wanted to protect). It’s clear that you can’t reason with them because they take their belief of how it should be to irrational levels of entitlement. They refuse to even entertain the idea that their belief is incorrect, even in the face of logic, reason, and facts. There has been a huge connotation between creative works and property. Due to that, these people feel that they are owed something for the use of their “property”. People, for some reason, have a strong attachment to the idea of property and questioning the validity of that property evokes strong emotional reactions to it.
The fellow I spoke to felt that if he or any part of his family ever published a creative work, then anyone who ever makes use of that work (e.g. cover songs, etc.) and makes revenue from it, owe him or is family a percentage of it. He was fully convinced that the work entirely belonged to him, and sidestepped the issue of works being built upon what came before, claiming all derivative works entitled him to remuneration, yet didn’t once acknowledge he should be privy to the same requirements. He believed this so strongly, in spite of facts to the contrary, much like those that cling to religious beliefs (ironically, he mentioned that he strongly believed in a “god”. A connection perhaps?). After about a half-hour debate, it became clear that this person had no interest in questioning that which he was convinced could stand to benefit him at some point.
When encountering staunch copyright supporters in the wild, it’s best to come into the situation with the assumption that they will not submit to logic and reason because they are fully convinced it’s in their best interest not to. People tend to behave irrationally when it comes to property and money.
My opinion: Everything should be fair use. Why should some people (group A) be allowed to take and make use of what others have done (group B), but bar others (group C) from making use of what they’ve themselves (A) have created using what others (group B) have done? I can make use of the Grim tales collection to my heart’s content, but I can’t make use of Disney’s “Snow White”? Why does that make sense? How is that fair? The only difference is copyright that likely will never expire for works create after 1923. But, “Oh noes! How will artists make a living from selling their work?” Simple, they get hired to do the work they actually do (i.e. labor) instead of holding the results of their labor ransom from the common culture they drew their ideas from.
Let me be perfectly blunt. Everything an artist creates is, by nature, not their “property”. It belongs to the collective common culture that birthed it. That is, all works are formed from the memes of society, thus are the commonwealth of society, which no single person or entity can ever lay claim to.
I realize that I contradict my earlier point about those not willing to entertain such concepts, but this isn’t for them. This is for those that aren’t yet indoctrinated into the culture of “intellectual property” (a term the industry made up to give merit to their arguments).
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There is artistic property, they have a moral right to the the material they mold their art out of until they sell it(plastics and woods and such)
It’s the state granted monopolies that they confuse with property that are the problem.
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Morals are relative and subject to the majority perspective. In this case, most people agree that items you legally obtain are your property. However, it is not an absolute truth. The truth is, nothing is anyone’s property. Everything is borrowed and will be redistributed after you cease to live. Property is a human concept and does not exist in nature. To claim a moral right to property is nothing more than an appeal to emotional attachment to material wealth and power.
The physical manifestations of art are only held in exclusivity due to their scarcity. Were it possible to effectively create unlimited copies of physical objects with minimal effort and resources, even the concept of property will become meaningless.
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“Property is a human concept and does not exist in nature.”
Territorial animals the world over would beg to differ. If they could talk that is. So-called ‘intellectual property’ does not exist in nature but certain forms, like making exclusive use of land or space, clearly do.
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That’s not even close to what I meant. Nature doesn’t lend itself to the concept of discrete units of property like human government does. Nature does not form divisions of land and resources. It’s mutually occupied by all living things. Territorial animals own their territory like you own the air you breath. It’s only yours so long as you can hold it.
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So I guess you’ve never watched one territorial animal kick another territorial animal’s ass and take that territory. Exclusive use my ass. Dumb analogy.
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“And that shows the difference between you and most people on this blog. When there’s a fair use gray area, we would much prefer the outcome be more speech and less censorship. You seem to derive some sort of glee from the idea of shutting down someone’s art.”
The difference between you and me is that I don’t look at a 1% chance of fair use and scream “FAIR USE! FAIR USE!” with my hands over my ears, running like a silly child with no intelligence. I would rather stop and look at the reality of the situation, and see where it is.
“you should probably agree is that this is exactly the kind of thing that SHOULD be fair use”
Not in the slightest. What Dan Bull wrote should be legal and free, but making a song using exactly musical material in question to make a new song isn’t fair use.
Dan Bull has not been censored (using your own standards) because he can still publish his words and he can still state his opinion in every forum that he chooses. He isn’t censored.
Censorship means the speech is stopped. Clearly, Mr Bull isn’t being stopped.
You are making the same sort of mistake that is often made here. You are looking at the wrong parts to try to justify something, in this case using the legal and acceptable opinions of Mr Bull as a reason to claim the music as fair use. You have to squint really, really hard and ignore almost all of the law and caselaw to get there.
Let me ask you: Is Dan Bull’s opinion so weak that it entirely depends on using the “stolen” music to make it work? Would it have been useless without it? Are his arguments or points so weak that they cannot stand up without the obvious legal misstep?
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You are demonstrating my point nicely.
It’s a piece of transformative art; it’s a piece of criticism and commentary; it contains many elements of parody; it’s a person creating something new that expresses something important that does not harm the original by its reuse.
Nothing about this takedown is related to the actual purposes of copyright. That is evident from the fact that many other videos using the beat (including Mac MIller’s) are still up. It is an abuse of copyright to block content based on the views and ideas it expresses, not because of a violation of the commercial rights copyright entails.
Fair use exists to prevent that from happening. Fair use is what theoretically allows copyright and free speech to exist in harmony. If fair use does not protect Dan here, then it’s fair use that has failed – not Dan who has gone too far.
But, you haven’t given one lick of thought to any of that. All you know is that you don’t like this video, and you can see arguments for why it’s not fair use, so you intend to push them. You give zero consideration to the fact that you are supporting a takedown that, whether or not it meets various semantic definitions of ‘censorship’, was motivated by the desire to censor. That’s not what copyright is for. Preventing that IS what fair use is for. Your apparent goal is to find ways to minimize fair use and make sure this takedown — motivated by a desire to censor — is permitted on technicalities.
We’re not making excuses for Dan Bull. You’re making excuses for Lord Finesse.
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You are demonstrating my point nicely.
It’s a piece of transformative art; it’s a piece of criticism and commentary; it contains many elements of parody; it’s a person creating something new that expresses something important that does not harm the original by its reuse.
Nothing about this takedown is related to the actual purposes of copyright. That is evident from the fact that many other videos using the beat (including Mac MIller’s) are still up. It is an abuse of copyright to block content based on the views and ideas it expresses, not because of a violation of the commercial rights copyright entails.
Fair use exists to prevent that from happening. Fair use is what theoretically allows copyright and free speech to exist in harmony. If fair use does not protect Dan here, then it’s fair use that has failed – not Dan who has gone too far.
But, you haven’t given one lick of thought to any of that. All you know is that you don’t like this video, and you can see arguments for why it’s not fair use, so you intend to push them. You give zero consideration to the fact that you are supporting a takedown that, whether or not it meets various semantic definitions of ‘censorship’, was motivated by the desire to censor. That’s not what copyright is for. Preventing that IS what fair use is for. Your apparent goal is to find ways to minimize fair use and make sure this takedown — motivated by a desire to censor — is permitted on technicalities.
We’re not making excuses for Dan Bull. You’re making excuses for Lord Finesse.
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You stretched it to the breaking point, and it snapped, sorry!
You stretched it to the breaking point and failed to convince anyone, sorry!
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Yes, but generally that doesn’t mean you take someone’s copyrighted work and use it to make a new song. Those are uses that are very specific and not really meant to apply to someone making a new song.
From henceforth we shall call you Captain Censorship! Or CC for short! … Wait … I guess we will have to come up with a new name lest the public confuse you for an idea that is far more useful and intelligent than you are.
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careful, he’ll sue Google because a search for “CC” not returning a picture of him.
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Yes, but generally that doesn’t mean you take someone’s copyrighted work and use it to make a new song.
On the contrary, that is exactly what happens in many cases.
Weird Al Yankovich, parodist-extraordinaire, generally asks permission of the artists he parodies in order to avoid arguing with them later. However, for one of his most famous parodies, “Amish Paradise”, the original artist objected after the fact. That didn’t stop the parody from being distributed.
Yankovich sells his work. He continues to do so. He is protected by both the transformative and parodic nature of his work, plus the fact that his songs provide increased exposure for the originals while being quite distinct from them, therefore not reducing their economic value. The only difference between Yankovich and Bull is that Yankovich isn’t making fun of the original artists for being douchebags. Usually.
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“Weird Al Yankovich, parodist-extraordinaire, generally asks permission of the artists he parodies in order to avoid arguing with them later. However, for one of his most famous parodies, “Amish Paradise”, the original artist objected after the fact. That didn’t stop the parody from being distributed.”
Yes, but you have to understand the difference. Weird Al didn’t make a song that insulted Coolio directly and did nothing to create parody, he created a parody song about Amish people. That’s a parody of the song. He didn’t try to score political points or try to make someone else look bad, he made a funny song with the same basic music (but didn’t reuse the performance, another key here).
Your post explains my point exactly. Dan Bull didn’t do what Weird Al does. That’s important to understand.
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I agree with you that Yankovich’s work is different, but I would say that his work is also less important. Yankovich’s work, in many ways, is just for fun. Bull’s work is a direct political statement about a current event. Freedom of speech in the US (the jurisdiction for Youtube) was created precisely to protect political speech and various forms of criticism. That it also extends to other types of speech is awesome, and I thank the courts for those interpretations. But that doesn’t change the fact that Bull’s work is more precisely what was intended to be protected by James Madison and the others who supported the Bill of Rights being added to our Constitution. If anything, his work deserves greater protection because of its critical nature.
The Founding Fathers didn’t really care about protecting tavern drinking song versions of popular ballads, because almost nobody was stupid enough to try to stifle those. They were trying to protect the Thomas Paines of the future, along with everyone who might be critical of the government or of powerful economic and social influences. Arguing that because Bull made Finesse look like a douche (which, to be honest, Finesse did to himself) therefore Bull should be silenced is a perfect example of why Fair Use had to be created to reconcile copyright law with the First Amendment.
Your argument smacks of sour grapes, rather than being grounded in actual law.
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“He didn’t try to score political points or try to make someone else look bad…”
If that’s why you think Dan made the song you might as well just quit know, because that would be a spectacularly ignorant position to take. This is a topic Dan feels particularly passionate about, and like a lot of musicians he expresses those feelings in song. It’s pretty clear you haven’t actually listened to the song’s lyrics and comprehended Dan’s arguments.
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“Only if it is in fact parody, which is still debatable here. It’s more like political commentary”
Consider these definitions:
Parody – imitation of another in a satirical way
Satire – in which a topical issue is held up to scorn
A laughter test for parody misses the point..
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See, you don’t get to decide on whether something is parody by whether or not you agree with it.
And if parody doesn’t “hurt” it’s not doing it’s job.
I’m not sure who or what a “Lord Finesse” is, but I’m pretty sure he’s a big douchenozzle whose name and impact will pass pretty quickly. Going after someone’s living just because he made fun of you is pretty much the OED definition of “big douche”. Let’s not pretend this has anything to do with copyright, really. How many mixtapes are out there with “Lord Finesse” beats on it? And doesn’t he realize that the sideways baseball hat thing went out with the original “Step Up” movie?
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Quite true. Parody is supposed to hurt people’s feelings on occasion, especially when you point out them being dipshits.
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Last time I looked, satire was pretty high in the rankings of ‘methods of delivering humorous expression’. If it’s dropped out, then Jon Stewart et alii are f#cked.
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“Only if it is in fact parody”… if only you were not such an idiot.
Re: Re: Campbell v Acuff Rose Music
Note well that Fisher v Dees (1986) was decided by the 9th Circuit. In comments here, my habit is to specify the court, unless the opinion is from the US Supreme Court, in which case it’s sufficient to provide a hypertext link and the year alone.
That said, Fisher v Dees was cited in Campbell v Acuff Rose.
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Lord Finesse diminishes the economic value of Lord Finesse’s (not actually) original.
So where’s the IndieGoGo for the Operation Bull Love Good, Cancer on Society Bad, I’m sure Mr. Inman could create a killer graphic of a Charging Bull skewering Mr. Finesse for a legal fundraising page.
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Charitable fundraising becoming a meme would probably be the best thing to happen on the Internet ever.
I stand my “attention whore” label of last week. Clearly other people feel similarly.
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Of course commenting as an anonymous coward rather undermines any reference to previous comments…
As to who’s earning the label of “attention whore”, my bookie has you as clear favourite.
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You’d lose that bet. It’s an Anonymous commenter 😛
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Your identity doesn’t have to be known for you to be an attention whore. Compare all the serial killers who leave notes for the cops and all the hackers who post messages announcing their hacks. Anonymous trolls making absurd statements in comment threads are definitely about getting attention and feeding their egos.
Is it wrong to try and take the moral high ground when you lifted the beat in question to begin with?
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See also: Coolio upset with Weird Al’s Amish Paradise, despite his Gangster’s Paradise being a complete reworking of Stevie Wonder’s Pastime Paradise.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_al#Negative
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It’s sad that those who made a living from copying don’t understand the importance of copying in culture & business.
See also: Disney, a fuckton of others in both the Music And Film Industies of America
It looks like not so Lord who lacks any Finesse is trying to maximize his bitch quotient.
If Dan Bull used the beat in his video but didn’t turn on the ads, Lord Finesse would have no qualms about it, correct? So why doesn’t Dan try and re-up his video with ads turned off and see what comes of it?
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It would amount to the same thing, because it would be promoting Dan Bull and his commercial channel. It’s still advertising of a commercial nature, as it’s Bull’s intent to get as much attention for himself as possible, so as to make income.
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So you don’t even need advertising to have it considered “commercial”. Fantastic.
By that statement Dan could walk onto the street and happen to wave at someone while wearing a Rolex watch and Rolex can sue him for trademark infringement or whatever.
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I can just see the copytard brigade drooling, and calling their lawyers’ to see if this is possible.
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Pretty sure they’d say it’s a public performance.
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and his arm movement entails a sync license, because it’s moving, like in video.., then a blanket license to cover other potential combinations of watches and waving in public..
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omg, I forgot about Region Codes. you have to have a blanket license for each region.., and each arm..
does anyone start to realize how mind-bogglingly retarded this whole copywrong quagmire has become? ineffectual, useless, obsolete, ancient, irrelevant?
just this thread is sufficient example to disregard or disrespect copyright at every opportunity…
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and of course, once all that’s in place, they will stop making wrist watches, and make finger watches, so they can start all over again by licensing each finger. of course, going back to the legal trough to ensure wrist watches are found infringing, and only finger watches are ‘authorized’…
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If that is the case, how is Bull – or anyone else who earns money from a commercial venture online – supposed to voice criticism of anything at all, without being open to accusations that they are doing so in order to increase revenue? What evidence is there to support such accusations?
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Hmmm, my browser isn’t showing the insightful button for this comment. Have a verbal +1 instead.
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Aside from what others have pointed out as the absurdity of your definition of commercial use, can you actually cite any real proof that Dan Bull has the intentions you attribute to him?
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You do realize that if that was all there was to it, no professional reporter would exist, comedians wouldn’t exist as professionals, artists like Andy Warhol wouldn’t exist right?
Commercial claims can be used to define something when appropriate and in this case it is not.
Something interesting to be noted is that when I searched for the post from Finesse, Google found it, but when you try to access the page, Facebook says it cannot be found, implying it was removed.
http://www.facebook.com/lordfinesseditc/posts/10150944470674067
If anyone is interested.
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I noticed that, too. In a word: Pwned.
Man… from being disappointed in Lord Finesse, I’ve gone to disgusted.
I’m a huge fan of his work, but I’m not sure if I’ll ever enjoy listening to it again… and since in the age, listens = royalties, destroying your cred like this is likely to be quite bad for your income.
If you’re gonna sue and do stuff like this, at least be reasonable.
the sad facts are:-
the double standards that Finesse is using (ok to do what ever he wanted when trying to make a name for himself, no good if anyone else does the same)
Youtube removing whatever on the flimsiest of accusing evidence, no checks done first
no repercussions against false take down requests. that would stop so much of this crap from even getting off the ground!
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I agree.
Do you know how hard it is to convince a 15-year-old who can barely read the legal notices that they do, in fact, have rights? That they should, in fact, argue back against blanket takedown requests? I know of more than one amateur vidder, both political and not, who has simply stopped making vids because their youtube account was suspended based on bogus takedown requests.
Chilling effects means someone stops doing their transformative, creative hobby (or living) because someone else wants them to shut up. Fuck the DMCA.
Fair Usage
I suppose you could use copyright in the manner that Lord Finesse did. It’s fair usage but the outcome for Dan Bull obviously wasn’t favorable. It’s like a hammer–meant to drive nails–but, for some, it could be used in a manner not intended. Copyright is a tool, isn’t it?
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” It’s like a hammer–meant to drive nails–but, for some, it could be used in a manner not intended. Copyright is a tool, isn’t it? “
It’s being used exactly the way current laws are intended to be used. Control of information. A gate for new artists. A means to eliminate pesky competition. A way to stifle uncomfortable opinions.
Yup, it’s working just like those that put it in place meant it to work.
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Lord Finesse is a tool.
Re: Fair Usage
“It’s like a hammer”
When all you have is a hammer…
The world starts to look like nails that need to be pounded down.
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when all you have is a hammer, lord finesse uses it to break cookies into powder for quicker ingestion….
Re-release on Viamo? How about embedding on his site using HTML5? Have other users host the video in their channels? Put it on PirateBay for others to pull down and post to their discretion?
There are many ways to get the video air play. While this is a obvious display of censorship, it’s very, very easy to “play around” Finesse’s “commercial use” claim. Dan Bull can easily “fight back” without falling under the terms of the counter-notices.
I’ve never liked rap to start with, but this Lord Fat-ass sounds like a real douche.
well
Does ANYONE still believe rappers are realistically portraying themselves?
The ones that say ‘shoot the fags’ turn out to be gay/bi,
the ones that have ‘talent’ turn out to have all their songs written by a 74yr old lady (and have to pay her tens of millions of dollars in compensation)
The ones that say ‘kill the cops’ turn out to be the ones most likely to file lawsuits and use legal means to enforce copyright etc….
Rap is entirely fake, usually created by RIAA committe members sitting round a table (hey! we haven’t had a small child rapper for a while…lets create lil’woofwoof or snoop puppy wuppy or whatever) and all this would be forgiveable if rap wasn’t boring and trite.
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your opinion is quite obviously based on an extremely narrow sample of rap, I’m afraid…
Re: well
Hmm….
I wish that I could just disagree but if there is no parody
And if there isn’t commentary then I can’t be what I want to be
Guess who’s back?
Back again?
Moron’s back!
Tell your friends!
Fraud
Maybe what Dan Bull should do is get the UK government to sue “lord” finesse for fraud, since its illegal to claim you are a Sir, Duke, Lord or other monarchy-approved title.
Stick him in prison for a few years, see if he’s happy to have stuff busted in HIS ass……
Re: Fraud
“Maybe what Dan Bull should do is get the UK government to sue “lord” finesse for fraud, since its illegal to claim you are a Sir, Duke, Lord or other monarchy-approved title.”
Is that why Prince changed his name to ‘Love symbol’?
(Actually he claimed that Warner Bros. owned the name, leads me to wonder if the monarchy have to pay a royalty fee every time someone addresses one of the Queen’s sons)
LF
LF LOL i thought these Americana rappers were supposed to be so tough, seriously he is acting like a little girl having her period.
Re: LF
OMG! You…you…MAN!
*tosses anon in gas chamber*
Sadly it’s just sleeping gas. Damn gubment regulations
The Royal We
I admit to ignorance concerning Lord Finesse; I can only infer his character based on this one tweet – which I assume is his personal feed. Is he in fact a Peer of the Realm, thus entitled to be addressed as “Lord”, and in the personal as “we”?
Was his music written in the style of this tweet, i.e., in a lawyerly fashion, with complete stops, vague innuendo and implied threats (although I’m very happy to read he won’t suppress a personal opinion)?
Would you say he has mad office cred in lieu of the more common street cred?
Re: The Royal We
He’s not an “official” peer of the realm. Thank God and Queen Elizabeth.
If he was he’d be addressed as “My Lord” or the more widely used “M’Lord”.
Right now he’s more like “M’Nit”. “He’s a bloody nit” in British English means he’s stupid, a fool, a moron, a complete ass or any combination of those that may apply.
I’d also hazard a guess that he’s just blown whatever street cred he once may have had.
You Tube has too.
Now Censoring Facebook
I was quite civil when I recently made a post on their facebook page, it has since been removed and I can no longer create any sort of discourse over there. Not that I expected any sort of rational response.
I guess I will have to take my shit to the streets on this one.
Nigel
Dan is protesting but it doesnt matter in the USA. Corporations are the new dictators, sure the government cant silence anyone…but our government is not the one in charge, elections are simply for the people who we send to talk to the people in charge.
The cycle is rather simple if you got alot of money
1. Hire a army full of lobbyist, arm them with suits, pens and a check book. Send them to DC
2. Lobbyist infiltrate congress and white house, ambushing all representatives using the smell of money as bait
3. Offer as much money as it takes to write laws in your favor
4. Hire a army full of lawyers, give them the info of the laws you just wrote.
5. Apply for broad patents that fit the law you just wrote
6. send letters to anyone who may just be using your very broad patent and except a check, its cheaper then hiring a army full of lawyers to fight your army of lawyers; Sometimes it does go to court, no problem
6a. Convince the judge you are right, if the judge doesnt think so try and bribe, if you cant bribe well you can try another court, after all, you wrote the law.
7. Use the law you wrote to silence anyone who doesn’t agree with you, or your use of the system.
8. profit!!!!!(and lots of it)
Got to love USA
Wont be long before corporations can just order people assassinated, im sure they are figuring a way to sell it to the American people and with enough money, it can happen..its not like Americans have a education system to comprehend anything other then one liners.
Lord Finesse
Lord Finesse spews rap.
With a capital C.
So because this bag of douche rap artist said copy write was infringed upon… even though there was no infringement… YouTube removes his video. I have an idea! let’s go to another video website instead of YouTube! oh wait! there is NONE.
Piles of Money
Almost fell out of my chair when I recognized that picture of the huge piles of money Dan used as a CC-licensed pic from Flickr. I recognize it because it’s a pic that I myself have used via CC in a number of powerpoint presentations for noncommercial use. The pic is on Flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/noahwesley/120499365/ It’s licensed CC-attribution-noncommercial-sharealike.
I don’t think Dan has any control over the brief ad that appears on the youtube video, so we can probably say he meets the noncommercial clause. And I think it’s a fair bet that he would let us build on his work, so sharealike is covered.
But this brings up some questions about the attribution clause of Creative Commons. Flickr doesn’t make it particularly easy to properly attribute CC pictures. I’ve resorted in my powerpoints to adding an ugly text box at the bottom of each CC licensed picture with the flickr username and the short URL. Although it’s effective and keeps me on the right side of the law, it’s horribly distracting. But technically, the flickr user in question could (although he probably won’t) issue another DMCA takedown since the video doesn’t effectively attribute his work (or any of the other pics, which presumably are also CC-attribution flickr shots).
It hurts my head that in this commentary video about a video about copyright that commented on another use of uncredited borrowed work, Dan uses even more uncredited work…not necessarily because he wants to, but because there is no good way to credit a lot of this stuff. People could spend a lot of time and money devising ways to better allow crediting things like flickr images in videos or powerpoints, or we could as a society get it together and accept that our copyright laws need major reform to adapt to the way we now use media. Either way, I think the way he used this image to meet the spirit of the CC license without meeting all the legal technicalities of it further reinforces the point of the video.