Hello, I am Eric S. Faden, and Walt Disney Studios are claiming copyright on my video “A Fair(y) Use Tale”. This video contains many short clips of disney movies, none lasting more than five seconds. I am claiming fair use on this video, because this video only uses short clips of their movies. Fair use is a legal doctrine, that defends against copyright. Copyright is the right to an original work, given to the original author.
My video “A Fair(y) Use Tale” uses brief excerpts from Walt Disney movies, as mentioned before. Using brief excerpts of a copyrighted material is fair use. My material is a remixed work, given to the public to inform them about copyright, and also parody Walt Disney movies.
Walt Disney Studios are claiming copyright on my video because
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Whereas in the movie market, this video does not lower the value of the original movies. This work was not used to derive any fame or fortune from the original authors. The original authors are often offensive to take down videos that have their work included in them. Whereas Disney often takes works from other people, and they have no problem with that.
With just the audio, Disney would never have considered the video infringing, because the clips used often only had one word. The clips were taken directly from the original source, and were not bought or taken from a third party producer. I will admit, i did not pay for the videos. But as they qualify for fair use, i feel as if i should not have to.
“A Fair(y) Use Tale” used multiple clips from the movies “The Lion King”, “pocahontas”, “Beauty and the Beast”, and more. A commonly used defense against creative authors who use other people's works is: This work is demonetizing our movies, as it strikes harmful criticisms on our works.
Truth is, criticism is considered fair use, and that's what our video was. Although, we were talking straight to Disney with our
They hired three different lawyers to handle their case, (which if you ask me, that's a clear sign that they know we have the upper hand in this case) two of them were clearly there for research purposes only, the other's name was Mister Smith, he stood up to give his opening statement. “While it is true that the video was made for educational purposes, to edit or show even small portions of films requires a public performance license, the only way to obtain this license is to have direct permission from the copyright owner. The only way this could be fair use is if he showed it to a small group of people such as a classroom and never put it online, this of course did not happen. We are not trying to stomp out small creators that just want to make educational content, we just want things to be fair.” He sat down next to the rest of his colleagues with a seemingly smug look on his face, like he thought he had this case in the bag. All company lawyers were like this, since large companies usually win court cases unless its something huge that could legitimately damage the company's image. I give my last statement before we leave the courtroom and let the jury decide Mister Faden's fate. “Despite what Mister Smith may have said about “not stomping out the little guys” they do it all the time. If someone wanted to make a necklace with the mickey silhouette and sell it
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This has impacted society today because in such dark times we are living now, these movies motivate us and give us the hope that we need. The Walt Disney movies give morals/values/lessons such as; friendship, love, dreams, family, and etc. They help shape our society and give kids the opportunity to dream big because the sky is the limit. Not only are these movies for kids, but for adults too, it helped find laughter for adults and comfort during the Great Depression and till this day adults sometimes appreciate more the film than children
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Those blocks (block, block, block) in just plain gray (gray, gray, gray): the perfect surroundings to leave one's mind blank... or insane.
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