Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 27th Oct 2007 22:34 UTC, submitted by Kishe
When her 0.29" family video was taken down by YouTube on the request of Universal MPG, the affected mother of two struck back with a lawsuit against Universal with the help of the EFF. While technically her family video might have been a copyright infringement as she had no license to include Prince's song as a background score, it is encouraging to see the public fighting back against restrictive laws that get in the way of their every day lives. My Take: I stated my own opinion on the matter on my personal blog.
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RE[6]: legal ramifications
by oma2la on Mon 29th Oct 2007 15:43
in reply to "RE[5]: legal ramifications"
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I am an artist, and I know very many artist personally with whom I have played music as well as watched their shows. I have also read opinions of many more, personally unknown, artist that have all said the same thing. We don't care about people using our work on YouTube and even encourage it!
As a case in fact, Prince is one of the most outspoken proponents of distributing content over the internet, more often than not for free.
The only artists that I know who disagree with online/offline fair use are either greedy, don't understand what they are talking about or, more often than either, both (see Metalica for more information).
So, to backup Eugena on this one, she is absolutely right. In fact, the 99% statistic she mentioned is probably far closer to the mark than you seem to think.