RE: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus

[Richard Hartman <hartman(at)onetouch.com>]

A standard similar to that of fair use should
apply.  If the use is small enough, it ain't
infringement.  If the change is small enough,
it ain't a new work.

-- 
-Richard M. Hartman
hartman@onetouch.com

186,000 mi./sec ... not just a good idea, it's the LAW!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael A Rolenz [mailto:Michael.A.Rolenz@aero.org]
> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:10 AM
> To: dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> Subject: Re: [dvd-discuss] Eldred Amicus
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> That's another area of copyright law that needs to be 
> reviewed, revised 
> and reformed. Derivative works should be sequels, screenplays 
> or plays 
> from novels or vice versa, radio adaptions, toys, comic 
> books, new revised 
> editions. The essense of this is TRANSFORMATION. There should be some 
> transformation in the derivative work. Adding new footage to 
> an old work 
> doesn't transform it. It's more like having a second edition 
> of a book 
> where somebody adds a new page to each chapter. OTOH, if 
> someone takes a 
> NEW SPecial 150th anniversay of Starwars produced in UltraExtremeDVD 
> format with new rediscovered footage never before seen that 
> was buried in 
> the Lucus Time Capsule at the  INdustrial Light and Magic 
> Shrine and edits 
> all of that out to produce "StarWars-The Original Version" it 
> should not 
> be infringment NOR should it qualify for a copyright of its own. 
> OTherwise, we are back to the perpetual copyright 
> problem....well...every 
> field has it's problems. In CS there's the halting problem. 
> In math, there 
> was Fermat's last theorum. Maybe here we have the perpetual copyright 
> problem
> 
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> 
> Ernest Miller <ernest.miller@aya.yale.edu>
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> 05/30/2002 09:32 AM
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> Michael A Rolenz wrote:
> > Oh...but he would argue that he's had all this time to work 
> on it and 
> > perfect it. Aren't you just jumping for joy? Actually even 
> with a 28yr 
> > term he's still have 3 more yrs to work on it. With a 50 
> yrs term he can 
> 
> > finish it up using his social security and pension ;-)
> 
> But he's not finished it yet.  Remember the "Special 
> Editions"?  Rumor 
> has it that Jar Jar will be added to Episode 4 and 
> Queen/Senator will be 
> added to Episode 6 (I kid you not, though this is only rumor).  Every 
> new edition will get a new copyright.
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> > Richard Hartman <hartman@onetouch.com>
> > Sent by: owner-dvd-discuss@eon.law.harvard.edu
> > 05/30/2002 09:18 AM
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> > Actually Star Wars is an argument for shorter terms.
> > 
> > If Lucas were facing a shorter term on his creation,
> > he might've finished the $(!@ series by now!
> > 
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