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• Can you use a professional sports team as a character in a piece of fiction?

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 633
  Would it be considered "fair use" to pen a satirical childrens book based on a professional sports team? For instance, "How The Yankees Stole Christmas" or something similar. (Thats not the title I have in mind, but it gets the point across.) I guess it just boils down to whether or not its legal to use a generalized ...
  5 days ago

• Worlds Fair Use Day - January 12, 2010

  
  Fairly Used — Authority: 103
  World’s Fair Use Day (WFUD) is a free, all-day celebration of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. The day will highlight new and innovative uses of existing content; provide the perspectives of artists, policymakers, academics and business ...
  2 weeks ago

• Murdoch to Washington: Stay out of the way, but please help

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 765
  Filed under: People , Media , News Corp. Rupert Murdoch is sending mixed signals. Under no circumstances does he think the federal government ought to step in and help float newspaper publishers through their current difficulties. But the key to the future solvency of news organizations lies, he suggests, in ...
  3 weeks ago

• How do I do right by a giant, evil media corporation

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 633
  How can I go about contacting CBS to ask for permission to post clips from 1970s talkshows on Youtube/Podcasts? Im involved in promoting a book whose author is long dead, but he was interviewed by Donahue and Oprah in 1979 about his research. (it involves human sexual response and the differences between sexual and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Associated Press loves fair use (we just wish theyd share)

  
  Boing Boing — Authority: 868
  The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fair use to do reporting on Sarah Palins memoir Glowing Rouge: "The AP was determined to get the first copy," Oreskes ...
  4 weeks ago

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