minchy wrote:
He's told the local news (look at the video) but the only reason universal are aware of the songs exustsnce is he sent it to them and they thought 'hmmmm, that sounds a lot like our song, we can't let him donate proceeds to charity when we should get the money ourselves for finding the song in Korea and marketing ut over in Europe.' or something similar to that. It just makes shows like south park, who make fun of money grabbing record labels, look more like documentaries!
Well I'd say that Universal are breaking the law (technically).
I'd say that the video was a parody of the original song. And although Parody isn't usually covered by copyright legislation...(you need the copyright owners permission)... there are some fair use exceptions which I think this video falls under.
The main one would be:
Parodies of works protected by copyright require the consent or permission of the copyright owner, unless they fall under existing fair use/fair dealing exceptions:
- the part of the underlying work is not "substantial"
- the use of the underlying work falls within the fair dealing exception for "criticism, review and news reporting"
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enforcement of copyright is contrary to the public interest.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody#United_KingdomI'd certainly make a strong case that this being a video to raise money for charity that enforcing copyright is contrary to the public interest...
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