Vidding news of the OMG kind!
U.S. Library Of Congress Grants DMCA Exemption for Vidders!!
For the next two years, the Library of Congress has issued (or will be issuing later today) a DMCA exemption for makers of noncommercial remix, which includes vidding, anime music videos, political remix videos and the like.
... makers of noncommercial video ... are also permitted to circumvent DMCA technologies if they need to in order to ... make artistic statements
and
people making noncommercial remix video do not have to worry about violating the DCMA's anticircumvention provisions
Now, I'm not a lawyer (obviously), but if I'm reading this right... vidding just pretty well became legal, yes? I mean, it says that there is still actual copyright law to contend with, but we've been doing that for years, anyway, staying just this side of "fair use" anyway. But this is a DMCA exemption.
Does this mean no more DMCA take-down notices? For the next two years, friends, I think it just might.
*breaks into the Myposian dance of joy*
For the next two years, the Library of Congress has issued (or will be issuing later today) a DMCA exemption for makers of noncommercial remix, which includes vidding, anime music videos, political remix videos and the like.
... makers of noncommercial video ... are also permitted to circumvent DMCA technologies if they need to in order to ... make artistic statements
and
people making noncommercial remix video do not have to worry about violating the DCMA's anticircumvention provisions
Now, I'm not a lawyer (obviously), but if I'm reading this right... vidding just pretty well became legal, yes? I mean, it says that there is still actual copyright law to contend with, but we've been doing that for years, anyway, staying just this side of "fair use" anyway. But this is a DMCA exemption.
Does this mean no more DMCA take-down notices? For the next two years, friends, I think it just might.
*breaks into the Myposian dance of joy*