On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:22:23 PST, "Zach C." said: > (Fair use being the main exception there, but fair use usually implies > something distinctive being done to the work, too, as opposed to minor > editing/shitty encoding. Feel free to correct!)
Two of the major areas of fair use *are* "minor editing/shitty encoding": 1) "minor editing" - The ability to take small chunks for analysis/commentary/reviews. It's a lot easier and more informative if you're talking about the chord changes in a Beatles song to actually *include* snippets of the changes, or if you're writing about how Halloweeen 37 sucks, being able to include the 5 suckiest scenes so you can voice-over why the scene sucks... "And HERE we see the scriptwriter abandon all pretense at believability..." 2) "shitty encoding" - At one time, it was legal to buy an album or a CD, and then re-record it yourself onto other media. I believe the term is "ripping". :) And there was even a Supreme Court decision that said it was perfectly OK. Unfortunately, the DMCA makes that a *lot* harder or even illegal - Skylarov got in trouble for revealing that Adobe was using rot-13 to encrypte ebooks. What was Skylarov trying to do? Feed an ebook to a text-to-speech so blind people could actually use the ebook they had purchased - which everybody sane agrees is covered under 'fair use', but there isn't any such exemption in the anti-circumvention clause.
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