MetaTalk posts tagged with copyright

Help me see this youtube video in Canada.

If only I had a penguin... — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:43:51 -0800

The youtube video in this FPP is not available in my country (Canada) due to copyright restrictions. I've watched it before and would like to watch it again. Can someone either point me to it somewhere else online where it might work (maybe on youtube at another account), or at least tell me the proper title or some info I can use to search myself? Thanks.

Iconic unattributed photographs.

Mitheral — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 10:06:19 -0800

The no-attribution discussion is derailing this thread on famous photographs. Let's have it here instead. Previously.

Yuoko.com & ©

koeselitz — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:53:50 -0800

It's inevitable, so I'll bring it up: the copyright-defying This American Life via Yuoko.com post. Let's talk, shall we? Yes, we've done this before with stavros' huge post some time ago. Part of the point of the new post is the very interesting debate about 'video on global demand (as the title has it) in the context of copyright and authorial remuneration. So of course this is worth talking about in the context of Metafilter, too, and in terms of what we feel comfortable with. I guess my own chief motivation for posting this to metatalk was this: I kinda like This American Life, and it just so happens that the DVDs of these episodes are already commercially available. I personally adopt the rule of a torrent site that I frequent; if I like a show, and if it's commercially available, I don't spread it around as I'd like it to continue and I'd like it to see the revenue from whatever good it's done. So the question: do we like skirting copyright on the front page like this? Do we feel comfortable not only ducking around the law but around helping out our own favorite shows as well? What do we think?

We have always been at war with the DMCA....

zarq — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:59:20 -0800

What is MeFi policy on linking to material that is copyrighted in the US? If we don't have one, did I inadvertently do something that might cause a problem for mathowie? I linked to a couple of Orwell novels hosted at another site in this post. The books are apparently under current copyright in the US (where MetaFilter's servers are,) and the UK. The FAQ doesn't address the issue. FWIW, I do know that this has been a hotly debated topic for years, especially since the AP / blogger fiasco. I'm not really looking to rehash whether linking to such materials is morally acceptable.

Sita Sings

homunculus — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:30:59 -0800

Sita Sings the Blues, the animated Ramayana by MeFi's own Nina Paley, is finally going to air on TV on March 7th on PBS (WNET) in New York. [Via]

Copyright discussion

grouse — Sun, 02 Sep 2007 06:46:30 -0800

jessamyn has invited us to have a discussion about copyright issues in MetaTalk. So here it is.

wanna come over and watch a movie?

phaedon — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 01:01:19 -0800

I download what I imagine might be legally construed as "copyrighted material" all thie time. But I'm actually upset with this post because I know some people that worked on US v. John Lennon. (Double standard, I know.) So are there any guidelines about posting full-length, copyrighted movies? Is this post this even in good taste? Where's the context? Does it have any intent other than to illegally distribute a movie? Is this even a problem?

Can I Legally Post This To MeFi Music?

gummi — Tue, 27 Mar 2007 20:20:00 -0800

Sometime in the early nineties a now long lost friend of mine recorded a cd. I can't seem to locate him and it's been quite a few years since we last talked. I found a copy of his cd and want to post a few of his songs to MeFi Music. (I love the cheesy pop-techno sound of a few of these tunes and the memories they bring back.) I "played" on stage with him (keyboard flourishes...very minimal playing on my part) and spent many hours in the studio with him on more than one occasion during the recording of said cd. Given that information, would posting the songs be an OK thing to do? Are there legal issues?

Copy(left/right)

phrontist — Sun, 11 Mar 2007 19:14:09 -0800

What's the deal with posting songs on AskMeFi? I've contacted some users to ask if I can sample something of theirs, and while I have no problem doing this (and will continue to ask), I think it would be neat to be able to specific a creative commons (or other more restrictive) licenses. I know they could simply specify themselves, but it would be nice to make things unambiguous by default. Not hugely important, but I think it would be helpful.

FPPs to Copyrighted Material

roofus — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 02:39:29 -0800

Is there a definite rule about not FPPing links to possibly copyrighted material? As Viacom noticed there's a lot of videos on YouTube that probably shouldn't be there, and I'm unsure if we're allowed to include such things in posts.

Why are some links ok and others are not?

Kickstart70 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 10:57:53 -0800

So, this FPP linking to a copyrighted movie is ok, but this one discussing how to download music in a place where it's legal to do so is not. An Inconvenient Copyright Law, indeed. Is there a rational explanation for the disparity?

I like stavros. I like copyright infringement.

localhuman — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 10:08:18 -0800

I like stavros. I like copyright infringement. I like the kind of hard work that goes into a FPP like this. But there's something about this Wii-winning post that doesn't sit well with me. Could you help me put my finger on it?

Posting Copyrighted Youtube Links

unknowncommand — Fri, 22 Dec 2006 07:42:46 -0800

Is there a policy on posting Youtube links to stuff that is (most likely) under copyright? I apologize if this has been asked before, but I swear I searched the archive...

Is this post facilitating copyright infringement?

ZenMasterThis — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 13:54:37 -0800

Is this post facilitating copyright infringement?

Is There a MeFi Policy for In Thread Music Links?

felix betachat — Sat, 28 Oct 2006 06:50:01 -0800

What's the policy on posting music links in thread?

"take all copyright/theft discussions that are not on topic to METATALK, thanks"

DevilsAdvocate — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:37:59 -0800

"take all copyright/theft discussions that are not on topic to METATALK, thanks" Done.

Copyright violation callout

loquacious — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:31:09 -0800

ARRRRRRR...gh.

Links to Copyrighted Material

seanyboy — Mon, 22 Aug 2005 15:25:15 -0800

As it's alright now to start posting links to copyrighted material, I wondered if anyone could FPP details on where to find the latest movies, albums and software.

Can I make a claim?

scarabic — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 18:45:45 -0800

All posts are © their original authors.

Does this mean I have a claim to a comment I wrote in a now-deleted AskMe thread? I am aware of how © protects an author's work from unauthorized reproduction, but how about unauthorized deletion?

Poems in comments

seanyboy — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:32:37 -0800

Bendy makes a good point here. Even though it's easy to do, is it really fair to copy whole poems in threads? We stop people linking to other infringing files, yet the copying of poetry seems to get a free pass. [vaguely related comment inside]

Piracy of Calvin and Hobbes.

AlexReynolds — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 11:10:07 -0800

Perhaps I'm not the model MeFi poster, and call me old-fashioned, but I find something really, truly shady about the abject, unapologetic theft of another's creativity being advocated on the Blue. Does piracy qualify as the best of the web?

I will be studying MetaFilter this semester for an e-communities class project

nalihasan — Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:48:14 -0800

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Would it be hard to offer users to option of putting their posts under a Creative Commons license?

Count Ziggurat — Sat, 20 Nov 2004 11:13:10 -0800

Would it be hard to offer users to option of putting their posts under a Creative Commons license? Users that go for it could have a (cc) link (to the license they chose) put in the byline of their posts.

Just a bit more copyright-friendly.

The copyright notice at the bottom of all 3 colours still stops at 2003.

zadcat — Thu, 23 Sep 2004 05:47:16 -0800

The copyright notice at the bottom of all 3 colours still stops at 2003.

Let me tread carefully here.

semmi — Thu, 26 Aug 2004 13:45:40 -0800

Let me tread carefully here. Is there a legit way people could post entire articles that require payed subscription (Atlantic, Salon, TNR, etc.) for the rest of us who have no subscriptions?