Recent content by Matt Perkins

Is this still available? I'm sorta on the fence whether I want this or the 2ES.

Ya know, I hate to be the devil's advocate but ... what's the problem? Honestly, I think it's kind of cool. Sure, in a purist sense it's totally ridiculous (akin to colorizing), but let's face it: not everyone it a purist. Frankly, if someone released The Empire Strikes Back in 3D, I think I...

I'll bite. In what way are the "needs" different? Ooo, ooo! Can I answer for Damin? "Because copyright owners in 2002 are gigantic multinational corporations with lots of campaign money, and in 1902 or 1802 they were just slobby little artists." :) Something like that, maybe?

Hey again, Damin -- sure, legally okay by copyright, excepting 1201 of course, although what the judge thinks and in which orifice his head is buried are yet to be known. :) But DGA's all about the Lanham Act (of which I know nothing, and I'm glad that you seem to understand it!). And under...

No, no, no ... not sampling for a recording. Sampling like I described above: modifying a playback live, during a public performance. Like, adding a techno loop, or increasing the playback speed. (Maybe "sampling" isn't the right word; I used it because that's the word you used.) I'm...

Right, right ... I understand, you're paying the public performance license. But in "sampling," you modify the underlying work. Is that privilege explicitly granted in the license? If it isn't, I think that composers/artists would have a "mutilation of art" argument against DJ sampling -- the...

Jeff, thanks for the response! A - I've seen some custom filters that do this very well. Made from some engineering program the name of which I can't remember ... do you think that, if the filtering got really good, it should be banned? B - Is this actually true? I've heard of a public...

Copyright, schmopyright. Here's what I find really troubling about the DGA's position: For a moment, forget about the "cleaned-up" versions that are causing such a ruckus. Think of this in terms of music: what would we be saying if this was the music industry that was complaining? They would...

My last paragraph explains why I (and Thomas, perhaps?) stick to our ground on this matter. You dismiss our motives, and perhaps that's because we haven't clearly articulated them -- so for that, I have to apologize. But, your quote above is what I'm talking about when I say, "you assert your...

He he! Okay, you take it that way. Oh, all right, let me answer your point: Yes. Jeez, I should be charging you for this education ... :)

You're attempting to make a semantic distinction where none exists. If fair use were only a defense, it could be repealed. In fact, fair use is something much more ... something so very fundamental to copyright that judges in the 19th/20th centuries had to pretend it was there, just to...

... allowing Clean Flicks, and any other entity, to create unauthorized edited versions of works they do not own the copyright for removes a portion of the incentive to create that copyright confers to artists. That's what I was looking for! That's the real meat & potatos of copyright, and...

Yes, Damin, there are "many fine points of law" in the distinction between fairness and infringement. If there are 1,000 such points in that scope of copyright, then about six of them have actually been litigated and serve as guiding precedent. Functionally, that is no precedent at all. I...