&quot;A Fair(y) Use Tale&quot; curta hilário sobre a lei do copyright, com legendas
Autor: Edu Gomes | Publicado: 2007-05-20T22:34:00-07:00

Eric Faden criou este incrível montagem sobre a lei do copyright ironicamente somente com trechos de desenhos da Disney. A minha noiva Pri já havia me explicado um pouco sobre a lei Mickey Mouse criada praticamente sob medida para extender os direitos para toda a eternidade sobre a propriedade intelectual. Claramente um absurdo que visa somente atrapalhar o desenvolvimento de novas idéias, exatamente como grandes empresas como a Disney fizeram com quase todos os seus desenhos animados (consegue lembrar de algum trabalho da Disney que não seja baseada em um conto ou história já existente?). Chapter 1: Copygright DefinitionWhat the heck is copyright? It's the law, that's the problem. You know the law? That stupid law... What the heck is copyright? I will tell you: Copyright is determinate fix a original work in some form that it can be revived, seen or heard. Now listen, this is important, only the copyright owner has the right to use their work. It's mine!-How can that be? That's not fair!It's forbidden to use a copyrighted work without the permission granted by the copyright owner. And everybody who is fool enought to break the copyright has broken the law. But we've forgotten a tiny little detail, you better be able to pay for that copyright permission. -We haven't discussed the subject of payment yet, you can't get something for nothing, you know?-But I don't have any...-I don't ask much, just a token in your trayful.-One moment, back up. You're saying this is about money?-Sorry sir, I don't have any money...-Distortion!-I prefer the term capitalist...-Listen that, it's the sound of your freedom flying over the window...Chapter 2: What things can be copyrighted?Well, just the usual things like: books, plays, music, dance, movies and pictures. -No, no, listen caryfully, you can't copyright an idea. -Yes, I can.-No you can'tA culture would be unwise to limite the power of a great idea. So we can only copyright the form an idea takes.Chapter 3: Copyright duration and the public domainThe law says that the copyright only last for a fixed amout of time. For example, copyrighted photos(?) only last 40 years. For a culture, that is long enought to a copyright owner to make money from their work. After just 40 years the work falls into public domain, so anyone can use the work. And what the heck is the public domain? The public domain is a disgrace to the forces of evil. -What are you saying exactally?Any work in the public domain is free for anyone to use.-Can you do that?Yes, it's essential. A culture create new ideas by building on earlier works. So the public domain is necessary for a living, trilling society.Unfortunatelly copyright keeps getting longer, and it seems to be no limit to how long a copyright can be extended(?). Now copyright lasts a life time: 70 years, and for some companies more than 100 years. So copyright last more like, forever.Chapter 4: Fair useAnd what the heck is fair use? You may thing this is crazy, but there are some limitations on copyright.-Is it possible?Yes, copyright can be broken. You may borrow a centain amount of a copyrighted work to: teach, news reporting, parody and critical comment.-But how do I konw if it is fair use? There are centain rules that demonstrate fair use: first of all the nature of the work you borrowed, second of all is the amount of the work you borrowed, and there is one more, it must be something that doesn't shrink the work's value in the marktplace.Now this is important: note that fair use is not a right, fair use is only a defensible position, and this is not fair.Chapter 5: Why use Disney cartoonsBecause this company is intimidating anybody who takes their copyrighted work. The point is, if fair use actually works, then movies like this one will have legal protection.