Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Creator rights versus User rights and copyright

I am seeing a lot of these fall arrangements on my walks these days:




Around the house, I have replaced my summer (artificial) flower decorations with fall flower decorations. I don't do anything elaborate, just a few pieces.

This is an interesting article concerning fair use with copyright laws.  This lady in California won her case after 8 years.  She had posted a video of her dancing baby with 29 seconds of music by Prince.  She was asked to take the video down as she was violating copyright.  It seems user rights in Canada are well protected compared to the United States.  Creator rights and user rights have to be balanced in Canada.

8 comments:

  1. The autumn decoration is very pretty. Here in Germany the creator rights seem to be strongly protected. Hugs, Valerie

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  2. I've noticed a lot of those types of decorations around here. They are so pretty to look at.

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  3. I went to Hobby Lobby and bought a bunch of fake flowers for my front porch...I put them too close to the siding (white) and the red dye bled onto the siding. It's now moved further away from the siding! As for copyright--YouTube strips the songs out, I've noticed. They did that to my husband on a private video he did as a gift to his daughter. One second a song was there and the next, it was silent. He should have used something like Flipogram to do that.

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  4. I think stuff like that is certainly fair use

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  5. Is that right? I didn't know it was illegal to post such a video with someone else's music.

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  6. What a beautiful arrangement! I'm sure yours are lovely, you have such a great eye! Interesting about creator and user rights in Canada.

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