This service was recently announced too. It's taking an ad supported model: http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/12/03/movieclips-movie-clips/
-Adi On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 7:13 PM, Alex Kozak <[email protected]>wrote: > I agree with that last thought Ben. I can also see this leading to scaled > back fair use rights. If I remember correctly, the impact on the market of > distributing a copyrighted work is a factor in whether or not that use is > fair, and same with the amount in proportion to the work as a whole. If the > original work is broken into smaller chunks of content and sold, I could see > otherwise fair uses of snippets being seen as infringing because now there > is a market for snippets, and the snippet's length compared to the overall > work the overall work is much higher. > > > > On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 4:02 PM, Ben Keller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/business/media/15film.html >> >> From the article: >> >> "Paramount will initially restrict use to business customers — advertising >> agencies, mobile carriers, foreign broadcasters — that want to license >> pieces of films for commercial use. The plan is to ultimately open the site >> to consumers. People wanting to embed a specific scene from “The Godfather” >> on their blog could go to ParamountClips.com and buy it." >> >> Seems to me that they may try to use the convenience of this service to >> deny the possibility of fair use of this material, especially to consumers >> who don't know any better. Thoughts? >> >> -Ben >> _______________________________________________ >> Discuss mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss >> > > > > -- > Alex Kozak > Education Program Assistant > Creative Commons > 415.369.8492 > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://freeculture.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > >
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