{"id":4055,"date":"2010-06-09T13:13:07","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=4055"},"modified":"2010-06-09T13:13:07","modified_gmt":"2010-06-09T17:13:07","slug":"glee-as-piracy-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/06\/09\/glee-as-piracy-central\/","title":{"rendered":"Glee<\/em> as piracy central"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Mulligan<\/a> points out that a popular mainstream TV show is not only encouraging<\/em> illegal behaviour, it’s actually indulging in it:<\/p>\n

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The fictional high school chorus at the center of Fox\u2019s Glee<\/em> has a huge problem — nearly a million dollars in potential legal liability. For a show that regularly tackles thorny issues like teen pregnancy and alcohol abuse, it\u2019s surprising that a million dollars worth of lawbreaking would go unmentioned. But it does, and week after week, those zany Glee<\/em> kids rack up the potential to pay higher and higher fines.<\/p>\n

In one recent episode, the AV Club helps cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester film a near-exact copy of Madonna\u2019s Vogue<\/em> music video (the real-life fine for copying Madonna\u2019s original? up to $150,000). Just a few episodes later, a video of Sue dancing to Olivia Newton-John\u2019s 1981 hit Physical<\/em> is posted online (damages for recording the entirety of Physical<\/em> on Sue\u2019s camcorder: up to $300,000). And let\u2019s not forget the glee club\u2019s many mash-ups — songs created by mixing together two other musical pieces. Each mash-up is a \u201cpreparation of a derivative work\u201d of the original two songs\u2019 compositions — an action for which there is no compulsory license available, meaning (in plain English) that if the Glee<\/em> kids were a real group of teenagers, they could not feasibly ask for — or hope to get — the copyright permissions they would need to make their songs, and their actions, legal under copyright law. Punishment for making each mash-up? Up to another $150,000 — times two.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I’ve never watched Glee<\/em>, but I find this quite an amusing juxtaposition, as the corporate owners of Fox are among the loudest and most active copyright enforcement goons around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Christina Mulligan points out that a popular mainstream TV show is not only encouraging illegal behaviour, it’s actually indulging in it: The fictional high school chorus at the center of Fox\u2019s Glee has a huge problem — nearly a million dollars in potential legal liability. For a show that regularly tackles thorny issues like teen […]<\/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":[9,28],"tags":[52,135,200,101],"class_list":["post-4055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-media","tag-absurd","tag-copyright","tag-music","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-13p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055","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=4055"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4057,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4055\/revisions\/4057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}