Alternate Harry Potter Soundtrack Bites Copyright Dust

Daniel writes “http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?story Id=4582190

I wonder if this could have been defended under the parody exemption?”

April 10, 2005 by Harry Potter

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2 Responses

  1. librarianscott says:
    April 11, 2005 at 8:45 am

    Sad
    Well, it didn’t “bite the copyright dust,” because no legal challenge was ever made.

    The artist apparently knew there could be a challenge since last June..see this Salon article… but once he was challenged he just gave up. Boo!

    Like the JibJab people this past election season, he should have contacted EFF or some other group to represent him, but instead let the “threat” of lawyers win.

    There are a number of considerations such as
    –does this work use the parodic device of contrast and juxtaposition to comment on the original?
    –do other people view the work as a parody even if the original artist does not?
    –does this work harm the market for the original?
    –is it a transformative work?
    –is there a noncommercial nature of the work?

  2. Brian says:
    April 11, 2005 at 9:25 pm

    In related news …
    The copyright owner of the movie The Wizard of Oz is threatening to sue Pink Floyd.

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