Sleeping Beauty's Fair Essay

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Professor Faden’s Fair(y) Use video should not be considered copyrighted or plagiarized. It instead should be considered fair use for a many number of reasons. One, in the beginning of the video it explicitly states it is “not associated with, authorized by or to be confused with any product of the Walt Disney Company, or Disney Studios.”the second reason that it should not be promoted as copyright is that by showing the Sleeping Beauty’s Castle is a form of free advertising of-sorts towards Disney Studios. By others viewing this, it shows where they got the clips from (in other words it references the original source of all the content displayed). The third reason is that it is simply a mashup of clips from the movies. The final product was …show more content…

Use of teaching is under specific copyright law. Plus, only showing less than two seconds of a bunch of different movie was not taking the entirety of only one work. The final product had a disclosure stating that they were in no way using this to make a profit and for the end ‘credits’ was just a list of all films they quoted/referenced from. Another reason is that at the end it states that it was created partially by Stanford University, and was only used (or usable) for teaching the rights of a copyright owner, fair use, and the public domain. They were clearly not in act of harming, disrespecting or even associating with Disney or any Disney Studio films.education and scholarly purposes are clearly stated in the Copyright Law. They in no way edited or changed the film content in any way other to shorten and make clips to mash into the final product. The purpose of this video was to merely educate schools and society about federal and personal laws and public rights. The basis of the final product is simply small quotes or references to all major disney studio films and to the walt disney company. This was an act of noninfringement held toward walt disney

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