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Really, most of my posts about fair use are excuses to post funny videos:
Is this fair use? My feeling is that a straight-forward reading of the four factors would probably suggest a “no” answer, but a sympathetic judge might find it to be sufficiently creative as to be transformative. Certainly, this clip doesn’t reduce demand for the work it’s based on.
Tim Lee / Timothy B. Lee (Contributor, 2004-2009) is an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. He is currently a PhD student and a member of the Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. He contributes regularly to a variety of online publications, including Ars Technica, Techdirt, Cato @ Liberty, and The Angry Blog. He has been a Mac bigot since 1984, a Unix, vi, and Perl bigot since 1998, and a sworn enemy of HTML-formatted email for as long as certain companies have thought that was a good idea. You can reach him by email at leex1008@umn.edu.
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