{"id":19887,"date":"2013-04-16T13:58:19","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=19887"},"modified":"2013-04-16T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T18:58:19","slug":"andy-baio-copyright-is-the-new-prohibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/04\/16\/andy-baio-copyright-is-the-new-prohibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Baio: Copyright is the new Prohibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/62839607?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Techdirt<\/em>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.techdirt.com\/articles\/20130415\/21153522717\/andy-baio-new-prohibition-created-copyright.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Masnick<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Andy Baio has an absolutely fantastic video presentation that he did recently for Creative Mornings\/Portland on what he&#8217;s calling The New Prohibition. It&#8217;s half an hour long, but absolutely worth watching. <\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>This video lets him talk a bit about the aftermath &mdash; to explain the true <em>chilling effects<\/em> of the threat and the eventual settlement. Baio is a creator. It&#8217;s in his blood. It&#8217;s what he&#8217;s always done, but after this he was <em>afraid to create<\/em>. Being threatened with a lawsuit, even if you believe you&#8217;re right, is a scary and possibly <em>life-altering<\/em> moment. Lots of people who have not been in those shoes think it&#8217;s nothing and that they could handle it. You don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>As he notes in the talk, copyright law is probably the most violated law in the US after speeding and jaywalking (and I&#8217;m not even sure copyright infringement is really in third place in that list). But getting rung up for one of those gives you a &#8220;bad day&#8221; situation, not a ruined life. Copyright, on the other hand, can ruin your life. And chill your speech and creativity.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the worst part: so many people, especially kids, are at risk. Baio also famously highlighted the prevalence of the phrase &#8220;no copyright intended&#8221; on YouTube. Tons of kids uploading videos use clips of music and videos with a phrase like that. Or with statements about fair use. Or with copyright law quotes. All, as he notes, to try to find that magic voodoo that wards off a possible lawsuit. Most of those people <em>aren&#8217;t<\/em> being sued.<\/p>\n<p>But they could be.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techdirt&#8216;s Mike Masnick explains: Andy Baio has an absolutely fantastic video presentation that he did recently for Creative Mornings\/Portland on what he&#8217;s calling The New Prohibition. It&#8217;s half an hour long, but absolutely worth watching. [. . .] This video lets him talk a bit about the aftermath &mdash; to explain the true chilling effects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[831,9,28,15],"tags":[102,135,529,200,199],"class_list":["post-19887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-law","category-media","category-technology","tag-art","tag-copyright","tag-lawyers","tag-music","tag-prohibition"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5aL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19887"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19889,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19887\/revisions\/19889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}