Disney Video Used to Explain Copyright

Recently a pretty amazing video surfaced that used clips from Disney films to explain copyright law. It was created by Eric Faden of Bucknell University and must have taken an insane amount of time to assemble. Now you have to wonder how long before someone gets sued over it. Also here is a corel cache version as well as a link to the original page.

Corel?

[Anonymous Coward]

Also here is a corel cache version as well as a link to the original page.

Interesting, I wasn't aware that Corel was offering a caching service. Unless he was actually referring to the "coral cache" we all know and love...

Oh Mickey you're so fine...

[packetmon]

Mickey: Hi kids do you know what copyright is? Kids: Is that when you sued my dead grandmother Mickey? [zdnet.com] Mickey: That's right kids...

Re:YouTube Link

[madsheep]

This URL you posted has an uncanny resemblance to the one posted in original posting.

Re:Amazing? Amazingly criminal...

[Anonymous Coward]

Naturally a random slashdotter knows more about copyright than the people at Stanford's law center...

classic

[poadshaw]

The public domain is a disgrace to the forces of evil

Next up

[$RANDOMLUSER]

Episode V: "The Disney Empire Strikes Back".

Re:Amazing? Amazingly criminal...

[Anonymous Coward]

Of course. At slashdot, we know more about just about anything than those klutzes outside our IT departments. That's also why we don't even have to read the articles. We already know this stuff. And being at slashdot, you should know it too, instead of making sarcastic remarks.

Re:YouTube Link

[evilviper]

This URL you posted has an uncanny resemblance to the one posted in original posting.

You forgot a few:

poster
postable
postface
posthaste
postdate
postdigestive
etc.

The more "post" and the less of any other words, the better. Please try to work more variations of "post" into your next... err... submission.

Re:BitTorrent Anyone ?

[i.r.id10t]

Sure, but that would be breaking the creators copyright...

Re:Amazing? Amazingly criminal...

[QuickFox]

Naturally a random slashdotter knows more about copyright than the people at Stanford's law center...

Of course he does. You must be new here.

Buzz "Copy" Lightyear

[Tachys]

Seriously, is Buzz Lightyear the only character to ever say the word "copy" in any disney animated film?

Re:Buzz "Copy" Lightyear

[gEvil (beta)]

Knowing that Disney gets many of their ideas from the public domain and other sources, I'd say that it's verboten to use the word "copy" in a Disney film. ; )

Re:ummm....fair use

[Anonymous Coward]

Shut up, poopyhead.

Corel??

[Anonymous Coward]

Since when did Corel enter the web mirroring buisness?

Re:Oh Mickey you're so fine...

[hal2814]

I preferred the Uncle Remus version:

Remus: Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-a. If you're watching this movie in the US, you've obtained it illegally. Plenty of lawyers comin' your way. Zip-a-dee-do-dah, Zip-a-dee-a.

Don't criticize Disney!!

[Siener]

They are the defenders of copyright! If it wasn't for their lobbying efforts the copyright of Mickey Mouse would already have expired. Imagine the chaos! Anyone would be able to create Mickey Mouse material, effectively stealing money from Disney's pockets and removing all incentive for them to create anything new - it would give people free reign to steal their work.

If copyrights expire then everyone could just profit from other people's work instead of having to come up with original material the way Disney has over the years. Imagine if Disney could just use works with expired copyright instead of creating originals like Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Beauty and the Beast, Treasure Island (Planet), the Little Mermaid and hundreds more ...Oh, wait...

Re:Description, please!

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh great! So the current difficulties we have determining the copyright status of a work can be augmented by the inspired clarity of the modern tax code!

Re:Buzz "Copy" Lightyear

[kimvette]

As an FYI, there will be a director's commentary on the MEF DVD release (in June) that talks about the ideas and challenges of putting the film together.

Does thepiratebay have an early leak of that commentary yet? ;)

Re:Buzz "Copy" Lightyear

[Anonymous Coward]

You underestimate the powers of the Pirate Bay! Rather than going to the effort of making your commentary, it's much easier to wait for a copy to appear on the Pirate Bay then just download a copy for yourself and distribute it. That's what Disney does, and its why they are so keen to keep the rest of us from Pirate Bay, so we don't discover the secret of their success. It's the same theory that allows a computer to bootstrap itself from a cold start and the universe to start from a big bang. ;-)