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The Fine Art of Copyright

Pete Hellmann

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April 20th, 2010 - 01:42 PM

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The Fine Art of Copyright

L. Gordon Crovitz of The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article about copyright and the Obama poster that was used during his campaign.

"Technology makes it easy to lift parts of someone else's music, video or other digital creations, tweak it, and call the result one's own. This usually causes no harm, but the case of a photo-turned-poster of Barack Obama is a reminder that just because technology makes something possible doesn't make it right."

"Until the digital age, the common view of copyright law was that it served overreaching corporations against creative little guys. Groucho Marx once generated publicity for the Marx Brothers film 'A Night in Casablanca' by playing on this cynicism. Warner Bros. asked for the plot of the film, fearing it would spoof its Humphrey Bogart classic, "Casablanca." Groucho Marx responded with a letter threatening a counterclaim against Warner for using the word 'Brothers.'"

The entire article can be found here.

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