Comments on: “Remix Culture: Fair Use Is Your Friend” is a collaborative project of the Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property—a program of AU’s Washington College of Law—and the Center for Social Media—a center of AU’s School of Communication—along with Stanford Law School’s Fair Use Project. It was funded by Google. http://madisonian.net/2009/05/18/remix-culture-fair-use-is-your-friend-is-a-collaborative-project-of-the-program-on-information-justice-and-intellectual-property%e2%80%94a-program-of-aus-washington-college-of-law%e2%80%94and-the-c/ a blog about law, tech, culture, and related things Fri, 19 Mar 2010 04:22:44 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Jeff G http://madisonian.net/2009/05/18/remix-culture-fair-use-is-your-friend-is-a-collaborative-project-of-the-program-on-information-justice-and-intellectual-property%e2%80%94a-program-of-aus-washington-college-of-law%e2%80%94and-the-c/comment-page-1/#comment-278497 Jeff G Tue, 19 May 2009 02:42:21 +0000 http://madisonian.net/?p=2415#comment-278497 Well, it's cute that they believe that "recombining to make a new work, such as a mashup or a remix" falls into the fair use category. Unless it meets one of the other factors allowing for use (such as critique or parody) or for fair use (such as a small nature of the work being copied for non-commercial purposes), I believe this is called a "derivative work" and is expressly prohibited without express license to do so. But hey, don't just take my word for it, ask Vanilla Ice how he feels about Queen. Well, it’s cute that they believe that “recombining to make a new work, such as a mashup or a remix” falls into the fair use category.

Unless it meets one of the other factors allowing for use (such as critique or parody) or for fair use (such as a small nature of the work being copied for non-commercial purposes), I believe this is called a “derivative work” and is expressly prohibited without express license to do so. But hey, don’t just take my word for it, ask Vanilla Ice how he feels about Queen.

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