In the latest EiR video, creator Kirby Ferguson covers Fair Use, the key legal principle that allows users of copyrighted works (including other creators) to use some (and, in some circumstances) all of a work for critical, transformative, or satirical purposes.
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I’m not sure how well these rules work for determining if parody is fair use. For example, take the Star Wars/ Let it Go mash up. Based on this video, that was an example of fair use, but based on the rules, I don’t know if I’d say it is. First of all, there isn’t really a clear point. It exists to be funny, but it isn’t really making a statement outside of “haha, Darth Vader singing Let It Go.” I suppose you could argue that it is making a statement about our perception of Star Wars and our perception of Frozen, but I feel like that is a stretch. From there the reason for that clip is more or less, because it works for the joke, but that isn’t illustrating a point, or at the very least if it is, the point certainly isn’t clear. And if there is a point, the point can be made with significantly less of the clip, so it is hard to argue that entire clip was completely necessary. I feel like this video made sense up until the 3 rules, focusing the idea of transforming the media to make some sort of commentary, but the 3 rules didn’t really seem to define fair use based on the previous examples.
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