The high school student who is running the page clearly has more sense than they and the lawyers (and why don't they run their own YouTube page).
No, fair use isn't limited to three second clips. And Jason surely knows more than whatever lawyers they have sending threatening letters. He was a staff attorney at EFF, taught at intellectual property and cyberlaw at UC Berkeley, and is now Associate Director of the Samuelson Law, Technology, & Public Policy Clinic there. They also don't seem to realize that if they do take legal action far more people will watch the video than if they had just realized no harm was done by a parody being up since July seen by under 3000 people. -- Steve Rhodes http://flickr.com/photos/ari/ photos http://ari.typepad.com http://tigerbeat.vox.com blogs http://del.icio.us/tigerbeat interesting articles & sites http://twitter.com/tigerbeat [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]