ext_115597 ([identity profile] francescacoppa.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] otw_news2012-03-03 07:50 pm
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DMCA Update

On March 2, 2012, the OTW's legal team filed a Reply Comment (PDF) in support of the EFF's petition to the Library of Congress to renew the DMCA exemption for noncommercial remixers, such as vidders. Special thanks to Legal Committee members Rachael Vaughn and Rebecca Tushnet for their work, as well as to all the fans who helped us explain why high quality clips are important to vidding and why remix matters!

Next stop: testifying in DC. We'll keep you posted!

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[identity profile] trepkos.livejournal.com 2012-03-04 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
http://blog.creativeamerica.org/

Do you know anything about these guys?
Are they just trying to get support for ACTA, SOPA and PIPA by the back door?

[identity profile] francescacoppa.livejournal.com 2012-03-04 05:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Hm, I don't, but at a first glance I'm very very suspicious. I'll send it on to Legal, see if they know anything!

[identity profile] trepkos.livejournal.com 2012-03-04 06:11 pm (UTC)(link)
The link was posted by someone I know who's in special effects, but I don't know him well enough to get into a debate about it.

[identity profile] francescacoppa.livejournal.com 2012-03-04 06:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Honestly, looking at it, I find it kind of offensive - -THEY (studios, TPTB) are creative america, where we're just apparently the passive lunkheads watching the Oscars. Personally I think that *we're* part of creative america! THey should call it "small subset of paid creative industry professionals!* But "Creative America" is overreaching!

[identity profile] trepkos.livejournal.com 2012-03-04 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Very true.
*we're* part of creative america!
Well, if I were in America!
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