Monday, November 23, 2009

Thats not funny.


In the last blog I discussed copyright infringement in detail and what government is doing about it. This blog shows some of the thing that government did about copyright infringement. In this blogger the government censored music due copyright infringement. There have been many case where the government have censor songs. In the case of Grand Upright v.s. Warner the "producers or creators of parodies of a copyrighted work have been sued for infringement by the targets of their ridicule, even though such use may be protected as fair use. The fair use cases addressing parodies distinguish between parodies — using a work in order to poke fun or comment on the work itself — and satires — using a work to poke fun or comment on something else. Courts have been more willing to grant fair use protections to parodies than to satires, but the ultimate outcome in either circumstance will turn" from the Encyclopedia II - Fair use - Fair use and parody. In this case the of producers and creators of Warner was being sued for copyright in the uses of there parodies and not having the right to use the orignal material. In Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music (1994), "the Supreme Court recognized parody as a fair use, even when done for profit. Roy Orbison's publisher, Acuff-Rose Music Inc., had sued 2 Live Crew in 1989 for their use of Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman" in a mocking rap version with altered lyrics." also from Fair use: Encyclopedia II - Fair use - Fair use and parody. In both these two cases the government censored the parodies of music that the recreactors did not have the right to uses.

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